# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220220180025` · 01/04/2022 · Tunnel Ridge, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Belt foreman, Maintenance foreman, Maintenance supervisor
- **Activity:** Move non-self-propelled equip
- **Injury source:** PUMPS,FANS,COMP,ENG,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 23
- **Mine experience:** 2 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Tunnel Ridge, LLC
- **Mine:** [4608864](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608864)
## Narrative

The employee was moving an approximately 65 lb. transfer pump, that was placed on a wooden pallet. The pallet was placed on the forks of a forklift. While stopped, the pump shifted, slipped off of the pallet and onto the forks, smashing the employee's right middle finger between the pump and one of the forks. Injury was not due to a training or compliance issue.

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