# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220241010016` · 04/01/2024 · Butler Sand Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Front-end loader, Scraper-loader operator, Pan operator, Payloader, Scraper rig operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 309
- **Mine experience:** 20 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Mike L  Watson
- **Operator:** Butler Sand Company
- **Mine:** [0900267](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0900267)
## Narrative

Employee was opening the main gate to the Butler Mine and injured right hand (two fingers).  When the employee went to pick up the gate and move it aside and place the gate post in the holder, that gate slipped out of employee's hand and two fingers were pinched/injured.

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