# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220253520008` · 12/10/2025 · Buchanan Minerals, LLC
## 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:** Section foreman, Bullgang foreman, Labor foreman, Leadman, Shift boss
- **Activity:** Hang or reposition tubing
- **Injury source:** RBR,GLS,PLSTC,FIBRGLS,FAB
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 10 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Coronado Coal LLC
- **Operator:** Buchanan Minerals, LLC
- **Mine:** [4404856](https://api.ai-analytics.org/mine/4404856)
## Narrative

Employee lifting an 18' ventilation slider to line up to slide into a piece of 20' ventilation tubing, an employee in the back of the slider heard someone say push the slider and when EE did the foreman's finger was struck against the D-ring of the slider and the 20' tubing. Resulting in a fracture, and a laceration that required 2 sutures to the tip of EE's left middle finger.

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