# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220252410016` · 08/28/2025 · C & H Excavation LLC
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between a moving and a stationary object
- **Occupation:** Miner, Prospector, NEC
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL COVERS & GUARDS
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.02 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Cliff E  Simpson
- **Operator:** C & H Excavation LLC
- **Mine:** [0505101](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/0505101)
## Narrative

Employee was assisting in changing screens on a portable screen. When the employee grabbed the screen to pull it out of the deck their left index finger was threw the screen cloth. This resulted in the finger being smashed between the screen and the frame of the screen deck. Resulting in 6 stitches on the tip of the left index finger.

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