# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220081090021` · 04/16/2008 · Lueders Limestone LP
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** NO DYS AWY FRM WRK,NO RSTR ACT
- **Classification:** HANDLING OF MATERIALS
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Laborer, Blacksmith, Bull gang, Parts runner, Roustabout, Pick-up man, Pitman
- **Activity:** Handling coal, Rock, Ore
- **Injury source:** BROKEN ROCK,COAL,ORE,WSTE
- **Nature of injury:** FRACTURE,CHIP
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.23 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** Dale  Higginbotham
- **Operator:** Lueders Limestone LP
- **Mine:** [4104257](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/4104257)
## Narrative

Other EE was piling rocks and he didn't see that EE was behind him and a rock landed on his left thumb. He was taken to Stamford Hospital where x-rays were taken. Diagnosis was a broken left thumb. The hopital splinted the left thumb and released him to come back to work with limited duties to protect his left thumb.

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