# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220202690030` · 01/09/2018 · Signal Peak Energy LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Beltman, Conveyor man,  Conveyor belt worker, Mobile bridge carrierman, Feeder operator, Conveyor rider
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 3
- **Mine experience:** 5.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Global Mining Group LLC
- **Operator:** Signal Peak Energy LLC
- **Mine:** [2401950](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2401950)
## Narrative

After loading belt structure into the back of a flatbed pick-up, employee had to adjust the structure to fit. Employee pulled on the structure and when it came loose it pinched a little finger between the structure frame and the pick-up bed resulting in an amputation of the distal phalange of the little finger.

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*Source: [MSHA Open Government Data](https://arlweb.msha.gov/OpenGovernmentData/) · AI Analytics · CC0 1.0*