# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220252230008` · 08/01/2025 · Mill Creek Dolomite LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Belt foreman, Maintenance foreman, Maintenance supervisor
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 1.94 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** United States Lime & Minerals Inc
- **Operator:** Mill Creek Dolomite LLC
- **Mine:** [3400008](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3400008)
## Narrative

EE was installing buckets on an elevator when the EE's right hand slipped off the bar causing the bar to fall. When this happened the EE tried to catch the bar as it was falling and it ended up smashing EE's middle finger on EE's right hand. This injury resulted in the EE having to get five stitches in EE's middle finger.

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