# MACHINERY
> MSHA accident `220261680014` · 06/09/2026 · Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Company
## Details
- **Degree of injury:** DAYS AWAY FROM WORK ONLY
- **Classification:** MACHINERY
- **Accident type:** Struck by falling object
- **Occupation:** Steel worker, Iron metal worker, Iron worker
- **Activity:** Handling supplies or material
- **Injury source:** METAL,NEC(PIPE,WIRE,NAIL)
- **Nature of injury:** CRUSHING
- **Body part:** FINGER(S)/THUMB
- **Days lost:** —
- **Mine experience:** 0.15 years
## Operator
- **Controller:** W Scott  McGeorge
- **Operator:** Pine Bluff Sand & Gravel Company
- **Mine:** [1518766](https://api.morvs.ai/mine/1518766)
## Narrative

Employee was assisting setting conveyor truss when the truss became hung on a bolt on a chute. Employee placed hands on shims to hold into place when the truss broke free and proceeded to come down mashing EE's fingers resulting in a fracture and sutures on the ring finger of the left hand and a closed fracture on the middle finger of the right hand.

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