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EE was using a 24" pipe wrench and mashed finger in between the wrench's handle and another pipe lacerating and fracturing the tip of EE's right ring finger through EE's glove. The laceration required stitches thus making this MSHA reportable.

Employee was cutting a few feet off a hose to replace a section on a waterline that was leaking. While doing so employee went to cut the piece and that's when they cut their middle finger on the tip of the left hand.

The injured employee along with two others were locking down large threaded nuts on the coal mill roller journal assembly, using a large open end wrench and a 10lb sledge hammer. The injured EE was holding and adjusted the wrench when the hammer hit EE's middle finger.

Employee was trying to position a sprinkler head on a conveyor using zip tie straps. Seeing that EE had positioned the sprinkler head incorrectly, EE was going to use a utility knife to cut the zip tie. Sometime during this task, EE cut self.

Employee was attempting to remove a coal mill roller from its journal using a 5 pound sledge hammer. Not being successful, they then began using a 10 pound sledge hammer. On about the 5th swing, they lost movement to their right shoulder.

Employee was trimming the rail rubber with a utility knife so the wire mash screen could clear and go underneath the lip. The knife slipped and cut their left hand.

Employee was trying to remove a nylon coupling from a hydraulic pump with a small pry bar. Bar slipped from employees grip hitting EE in the lower lip causing a laceration requiring 7 sutures. Employee returned to work the following day with only restriction was to keep injured area clean.

The injured and another employee was cleaning out a lime slurry tank. The steel rod that they where using got stuck inside the tank. As they where pulling the rod out lime slurry started to flow. They where closing the gate valve, lime splashed into injured employee's eyes.

Employee was cutting a piece of rubber with a utility knife. Employee accidently cut hand.