# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220001780080` · 06/16/2000 · Stillwater Mining Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Caught in, under or between NEC
- **Occupation:** Safety representative
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** POST,CAPS,HEADERS,TIMBER
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 10.36 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Stillwater Mining Company
- **Operator:** Stillwater Mining Company
- **Mine:** [2401490](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/2401490)
## Narrative

EE AND A CO WORKER WERE ATTEMTPING TO PICK UP A PLANTER. MADE FROM TIMBERS. THEY DETEMINED IT WAS TOO HEAVY TO LIFT AND WERE GOING TO SET IT DOWN. HIS PARNTER DROPPED HIS END BEFORE THE EE AND THE EE'S RIGHT MIDDLE FINGER WAS CAUGHT UNDERNEATH. REQUIRED SKIN GRAFTING.

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