# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220230450014` · 02/10/2023 · Cargill Salt 
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.37 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Cargill Inc
- **Operator:** Cargill Salt 
- **Mine:** [3000663](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/3000663)
## Narrative

2 employees were lifting a 13' long section of 6"" wide rectangular steel tubing in order to set it onto a dolly. Employee one lost their grip and dropped their end.  The other end then pinched employees left middle finger between the edge of the steel and concrete floor causing a nondisplaced fracture of distal phalanx of left middle finger. 

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