# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220240020006` · 12/22/2023 · Tunnel Ridge, LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Hand tools (not powered)
- **Injury source:** AXE,HAMMER,SLEDGE
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.13 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Alliance Resource Partners LP
- **Operator:** Tunnel Ridge, LLC
- **Mine:** [4608864](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4608864)
## Narrative

Employee was using a sledgehammer to knock down a block wall. Several blocks were already out of the wall. They swung the sledge at the wall and missed. The momentum of the swing caused their left hand to be pinched between the sledgehammer handle and a concrete block, causing a laceration.

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