# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220231630004` · 09/23/2022 · RMR Aggregates, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DYS AWY FRM WRK & RESTRCTD ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** BELT CONVEYORS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 2
- **Mine experience:** 0.62 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** RMR Industrials Inc
- **Operator:** RMR Aggregates, Inc.
- **Mine:** [0504954](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0504954)
## Narrative

Employee was performing a maintenance operation to replace a damaged conveyor trough. While lifting the new roller assembly, the employee lost their balance and started to fall. They braced themselves against a concrete block adjacent to them and the roller assembly fell striking their right middle finger causing injury to the tendon of the finger.

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