# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220243240004` · 11/17/2024 · Thiele Kaolin Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** PERM TOT OR PERM PRTL DISABLTY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Dryer operator, Kiln operator,  Dry plant operator,  Fluid operator, Bed dryer operator
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 18
- **Mine experience:** 0.08 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** J Eric  Tillirson
- **Operator:** Thiele Kaolin Company
- **Mine:** [0900110](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0900110)
## Narrative

Employee was changing out a bullet screen on a slurry tank car and the screen slipped and in a effort to catch it, it caught EE's right pinky finger, smashing it requiring EE to go to the ER for medical evaluation.

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