Machine Safety
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What can happen?
These motions have different actions and can therefore result in one or several types of injury.
Motion action type of injury
Rotating Cutting/Trapping Laceration/ Amputation/Suffocation
Back and Forth, Up and Down Impact/Struck by/Crushing Fracture/Amputation/Death
Straight Line Entanglement/Pulled by
Sprain/Strain Fracture Amputation
Death
contact with Electricity, Fire, Heat, cold, other Energies
Where?
You can contact electricity, heat, fire, or cold:
at power panels, electrical circuits, power lines, ovens, and heating elements
around chemical containers, vats, pipes, pumps, and compressors
around cranes, hoists, other lifting devices
during service and repair jobs
What can Happen?
Without protective guards and devices on machines, without following safe work procedures, or having
the right personal protection:
you could get hurt if you make contact with: electricity (e.g., faulty ground), flames, hot or cold
materials, and surfaces around machinery
you can suffer burns – and in some cases freeze injuries – around welding, soldering jobs, freezing
equipment, electrical panels and circuits, molten, baking, heating, steaming, extruding, plating jobs
you can be burned if fuel catches fire and chemical equipment explodes
you can get hurt if equipment or materials fall due to uncontrolled gravitational or mechanical
energies, such as problems with incorrectly slinging/rigging or lifting loads by crane or hoist,
inadequate stacking and loading
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