# HANDTOOLS (NONPOWERED)
> MSHA accident `220240080015` · 12/22/2023 · Beatrice Concrete Company 
## 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:** Bulldozer operator, Universal operator, Heavy equipment operator, Operating engineer
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** HAND TOOLS,NONPOWERED,NEC
- **Nature of injury:** CONTUSN,BRUISE,INTAC SKIN
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.75 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Nebco Inc
- **Operator:** Beatrice Concrete Company 
- **Mine:** [2500008](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2500008)
## Narrative

Employees were rotating the blow bars in the HSI.  This requires hitting with blow bar wedges to loosen them up to remove the blow bar.  While hitting the blow bar wedges with a hammer, the wedge came loose and hit injured employee's left middle finger and nail.

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