# POWERED HAULAGE
> MSHA accident `220250760016` · 03/06/2025 · Imerys Perlite USA, Inc.
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** POWERED HAULAGE
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Crane operator, Mobile equipment operator (MEO), Dragline operator, Dropball operator, Rigger
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BELT CONVEYORS
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 6.58 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Imerys S A
- **Operator:** Imerys Perlite USA, Inc.
- **Mine:** [2900248](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/2900248)
## Narrative

Worker was cleaning the plant floor and encountered a guard that had fallen from a  head pulley on a conveyor. EE attempted to replace the guard and the active conveyor caught it. EE's hand was smashed between the guard and adjacent steel casing.

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