# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220221660023` · 06/09/2022 · Bluegrass Materials Company, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by... NEC
- **Occupation:** Barge/Boat/Dredge/Towbarge/Towboat/Leach operator, Riverman, Deck hand
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 13 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Martin Marietta Materials Inc
- **Operator:** Bluegrass Materials Company, LLC
- **Mine:** [1800745](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1800745)
## Narrative

An employee was on the dredge replacing the bolts for the cutter head coupling. The coupling slipped and severed the tip of EE's middle finger of the left hand.

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