# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220253170678` · 10/31/2025 · Gernatt Asphalt Products, Inc.
## 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:** Barge/Boat/Dredge/Towbarge/Towboat/Leach operator, Riverman, Deck hand
- **Activity:** Machine maintenance
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 3.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Daniel R Gernatt Jr
- **Operator:** Gernatt Asphalt Products, Inc.
- **Mine:** [3002847](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/3002847)
## Narrative

While installing a timing belt on a screen, the counter weight came down pinching employee's middle two fingers on left hand between counter weight and flange. Diagnosis: Open fracture; injury of nail bed of finger.

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