# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220243510004` · 12/12/2024 · Nevada Gold Mines LLC
## 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:** Miner, NEC
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** AMPUTATION OR ENUCLEATION
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.75 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Barrick Nevada Holding LLC; Newmont USA Limited
- **Operator:** Nevada Gold Mines LLC
- **Mine:** [2602661](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2602661)
## Narrative

Ee was putting chock blocks back on the truck when one fell between the hand rails and the drum. EE went to get the chock and the hatch hooked the chock, pinching EE's right thumb between the hand rail and the chock. Seen at ER, diagnosed with traumatic amputation of the tip of the right thumb.

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