# HOISTING
> MSHA accident `220241690002` · 06/06/2024 · Geo Manufacturing llc
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HOISTING
- **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:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 2 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Charles C Dawson; Nicole  Dawson
- **Operator:** Geo Manufacturing llc
- **Mine:** [1601525](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/1601525)
## Narrative

Employee removed access cover where sand is lifted using a vertical elevator, attempted to use a piece of rebar to poke at what the employee described as ""wet sand"" in an attempt to unclog the sand and allow it to pass through to the vertical elevator. While poking at the sand, the rebar contacted a section of the vertical elevator which casued the employee's hand to be pinched.

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