# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220250990020` · 04/08/2025 · CalPortland Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS RESTRICTED ACTIVITY ONLY
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Steel worker, Iron metal worker, Iron worker
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.06 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Taiheiyo Cement Corp
- **Operator:** CalPortland Company
- **Mine:** [0201138](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0201138)
## Narrative

Employees were on the ground laying a spreader bar down to begin break and as it was laying down EE had hand on the underside as opposed to on top and EE's first instinct was to push it and it pinched EE's hand between the spreader bar and saw horse smashing three fingers.

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