# Cuts, lacerations at Headwaters Resources, Inc.
> OSHA SIR `2017065767` · 6/23/2017 · ACKERMAN, MISSISSIPPI
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Hand(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by object falling from vehicle or machinery-other than vehicle part
- **Source:** Scrap, waste, debris, n.e.c.
- **Secondary source:** Chutes
## Employer
- **Name:** Headwaters Resources, Inc.
- **Location:** headwaters Resources, Inc., ACKERMAN, MISSISSIPPI, 39735
- **NAICS:** 424990
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was using an air chisel to chisel coal ash from the inside of a chute when a piece of ash fell from the chute and struck the employee's left hand, causing a 3-inch laceration.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*