# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220242360025` · 08/13/2024 · ACA Products Inc
## 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:** Warehouseman, Bagger, Palletizer/Stacker, Store keeper, Packager, Fabricator, Cleaning plant operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 216
- **Mine experience:** 7.19 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Kenneth  Tunstall; Thomas Paul  Moltz; Eric  Moltz
- **Operator:** ACA Products Inc
- **Mine:** [0504442](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0504442)
## Narrative

Changing the drive drum on a stacker. A pre-assembled drum was rigged to a forklift. Trying to get the drum inside the stacker frame, they pushed on one side of the drum the rigging slipped on one end.  The employee was trying to guide the drum on that side.  The employee's finger was smashed between the shaft and the stacker frame. EE's left index finger suffered an open fracture.

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