# HANDLING OF MATERIALS
> MSHA accident `220231740012` · 06/22/2023 · Thiele Kaolin Company
## 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:** Vacuum filter operator, Flotation mill/Concentrator operator, Flotation plant operator
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** BOILR,PRES VSL,AIR HOS,OX
- **Nature of injury:** CUT,LACER,PUNCT-OPN WOUND
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** 0
- **Mine experience:** 0.04 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** J Eric  Tillirson
- **Operator:** Thiele Kaolin Company
- **Mine:** [0900337](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/0900337)
## Narrative

Employee was a washing a filter with a high pressure water hose when the hose came loose. Employee reached to turn the water valve off with right hand and the hose came out of left hand, whipped and pinched the right pinky finger causing a lacerations.  

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