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Laboratory technician was working with a box cutter knife when they went to preform a task in the lab. The knife slipped from their hand resulting in them instinctually catching the knife and causing the knife to cut their thumb.
On November 10th at about 2:30 PM one of our van shipping employees received a laceration to their left thumb/palm. The employee was attempting to open a pair of bundled shipping ratchet straps. When the employee attempted to open the packaging, the knife slipped, striking the palm area of left thumb. Resulting in a laceration.
On 10-10-24 at 1:20 PM Employee struck their left-hand ring finger with a pry bar.
IE was helping to free a bucket elevator leg. The leg, locked out at the time of the incident. Another employee using a pipe wrench to try and turn the shaft while the IE was trying to pull on the belt, when the pipe wrench slipped causing three of the IE's fingers to get pinched between the belt and a sheave. X-rays revealed a fracture to the tip of IE's middle finger.
On 1/30/21 the IE was trying to free up material in the Mill 13 bin using a long rod to poke the material. EE felt a strain in EE's lower back and reported the incident to management. The IE continued to work until EE's doctor took EE off work on 5/18/2021
Removing belt from a motor and did not relieve tension on belt first. When right hand pulled the belt, left hand holding a screwdriver slipped and two fingers were pulled between sheave and belt. Two fingers were lacerated and very tips were fractured. Employee was retrained to loosen tension first to remove belt.
Employee stated ee was cutting some electrical tape with a utility knife when ee cut finger.
Employee reported severe shoulder/neck pain the day after hammering out the mill 03 feed system from bridged and plugged wet feed.
Employee with a pre-existing back injury futher exacerbated his injury while working on mill 5. He was in the process of replacing the journals. He stated that while swinging a hammer he hurt his back. He was sent to the company doctor and he recieved restrictions.