Common Injuries
Safeguarding
Safety Devices
Guard Types
Hazardous Exposures
100
This happens when a body part gets caught between two hard surfaces.
What is a crush injury?
100
A barrier for safeguarding at the point of operation.
What is a guard?
100
___________ are devices that shut down the machine when the light field is broken.
What is a Light Curtain?
100
This type of guard is a permanent part of the machine, constructed of sheet metal, screen, wire, bars and plastic.
What is a fixed guard?
100
This motion can grip hair, clothing or force a hand or arm into a dangerous position.
What is rotation?
200
This happens when reaching under a blade to make an adjustment or not removing your hand before the blade is activated.
What is sheering?
200
Any place where a body part can be caught between two or more moving mechanical parts.
What is a pinch or crush point?
200
These devices brake a machine if operation is interrupted by a worker's body or object.
What is a Photo-Eye?
200
This type of guard can be adjusted manually for different kinds of work.
What is an adjustable guard?
200
These areas are created when machine parts rotate in opposite directions or when one part rotates against a fixed or moving part.
What are Nip Points?
300
This occurs when a body part comes in contact with a sharp edge.
What is cutting or laceration?
300
The area on a machine where material is positioned for processing and where work is performed.
What is Point of Operation?
300
These devices hold the operator back from a danger zone around a machine.
What are restraint devices or perimeter guarding?
300
This guard controls the action of the machine and shuts down the machine when the guard is not in place.
What is interlocking guard?
300
These actions are dangerous since flying chips or scrap metals can strike the hands, face or eyes.
What is cutting actions?
400
This results when a muscle is overstretched or torn.
What is a sprain or strain?
400
A hazardous area created by two or more mechanical parts rotating in opposite directions.
What is a Nip Points or Bite?
400
_______ provides a barrier between a workspace and the danger zone.
What are gates?
400
These guards are designed and installed by the manufacturer of the machine and conform to the contours of the machine.
What is built in safeguards?
400
These actions are present when power is applied to a ram, slide, or knife for the purpose of blanking, trimming, drawing, punching, sheering, or stamping metals or other materials.
What is punching, sheering or bending actions?
500
This occurs when an object penetrates into the body.
What is puncture?
500
All mechanical parts that transmit energy and motion from a source of power to a machine or equipment.
What is Power Transmission?
500
Use to pull the operator's hands out of danger zone if machine starts up.
What are pullback devices?
500
These are guards that are used to reduce or eliminate hazards involved with the operation of machinery.
What is Point of Operation guards.
500
This motion occurs when a blade, ram, etc., moves forward and backward in a straight line.
What is reciprocating?