Cuts and lacerations

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Power line workers who construct/repair power transmission and distribution systems face a wide range of serious and potentially fatal injuries, including arc flashes, electrocutions, falls from elevations, and injuries from falling objects. Major causes of non-fatal injuries include overexertion, thermal burns, sprains and strains, cuts and lacerations, and contusions. 

Cuts and lacerations Soreness and pain Multiple traumatic injuries... 

Top rails and midrails shall be at least one-quarter inch (0.6 cm) nominal diameter or thickness to prevent cuts and lacerations. If wire rope is used for top rails, it shall be flagged at not more than 6-foot intervals with high-visibility material. 

The new hand protection standard resulted from OSHA s belief that many hand injuries result from not wearing hand protection or wearing protection for the wrong type of hazards. Employers should evaluate and provide hand protection when there are hazards to hands from absorption of harmful substances, severe cuts or lacerations, severe abrasions, punctures, chemical burns, thermal burns, and harmful temperature extremes. 

To provide cold therapy for cuts, bruises, sprains, and lacerations, an instant ice pack for first-aid treatment uses a chemical reaction that requires heat in order to occur. An instant Ice-Pack contains two compartments — one containing liquid water, the other a solid. The pack is activated by squeezing the liquid compartment to break an inner seal that permits the mixing of the two compartments. Heat is withdrawn from the surroundings by the reacting chemicals, lowering the temperature of the ice-pack contents. 

Skin abrasion (scrape) and laceration (cut) expose the patient to the same risk for infection as bums. Abrasion and lacerations are treated by the following means. 

Cut or laceration injuries (i.e., lack of personal protection equipment and appropriate safeguards)... 

Examples Cut, puncture, laceration, abrasion, fracture, bruise, amputation, insect bite, electrocution, or a thermal, chemical, electrical, or radiation bum. Sprain and strain injuries to muscles, joints, and connective tissues are classified as injuries when they result from a slip, trip, fall or other similar accidents. 

Bureau of Labor Statistics data indicate that 275,500 workers suffered injuries to hands and fingers in 1994. That means about 12 percent of all work-related injraies are to hands or fingers. That s a significant percentage. Yom company shordd select and require employees to use hand protection when they are exposed to hazards such as skin absorption of harmful substances, severe cuts or lacerations, severe abrasions, prmctures, chemical brums, or harmfrd temperature extremes. 

Employers must select, and require employees to use, appropriate hand protection when employees hands are exposed to hazards such as those from skin absorption of harmful substances severe cuts or lacerations severe abrasions pvmctures chemical burns thermal burns and harmful temperature extremes. 

Woodworking machinery must be provided with the safeguards previously discussed in order to protect those using them from injuries such as due to laceration, cuts, and amputation. The use of protective equipment should be employed to further protect workers with this type of machinery. 

The hand protection requirements are outlined in 29 CFR 1910.138. The use of appropriate hand protection is required when the hands are exposed to hazards such as those from skin absorption of harmful substances severe cuts or lacerations, abrasions, or punctures chemical and thermal burns, and harmful temperature extremes. The selection of the appropriate hand protection shall be based on an evaluation of the performance characteristics of the hand protection relative to the task(s) to be performed, conditions present, duration of use, and the hazards and potential hazards identified. 

Users need a product that offers both cut and puncture resistance (laceration protection) something that essentially acts as a shield from straight- and jagged-edged hazards in a variety of field uses. 

Most injuries as a result of earthquake are caused by falling furniture or internal or external fittings and architectural features. These can range from minor cuts and sprains to more serious lacerations, fractures, crush injuries, and, in some instances, bums. A smaller proportion of injuries are caused by individual falls caused directly by shaking. The most serious injuries and fatalities tend to be caused by failure of parts of stractures that casualties were either in or adjacent to at the time that the quake or significant aftershocks occurred. 

A hammer balanced on a windowsill is a hazard. Knocking the hammer off the sill is an accident. The hammer striking someone and causing a cut or laceration is an injury. 

OCA has a longer side chain than butyl cyanoacrylate. It was approved by the FDA for use in the United States in August 1998 for certain types of laceration. Its applications have been expanded and it is now marketed as Dermabond (a trademark of Ethicon, Inc., a Johnson Johnson Company) topical skin adhesive for closure of lacerations and incisions in place of sutures or staples. Later on, a 2-OCA formulated for greater flexibility, Liquid Bandage, was approved for use in the over-the-counter market in the United States for the treatment of minor cuts and abrasions [29]. 

Self-mutilation refers to deliberate self-injury without the intent to die. It is most commonly encountered in three groups of patients those with organic disorders (including mental retardation), psychotic disorders, and personality disorders. Self-mutilation is often a clinical issue in patients with severe personality disorders who, for example, repeatedly make lacerations (often fairly superficial) on their wrist or forearm. They may describe that, as they watch the blood flow from the cut, it feels as if some internal tension is flowing out of them. 

Lacerations, commonly referred to as cuts, are intermptions in the integrity of the skin and should be monitored for signs of infection after they are cleaned and treated with antibiotics. Infection will cause the wound to appear red, swollen, and have pumlent drainage (pus) and persistent pain. 

An abrasion is a scrape and a laceration is a cut. Both are cleaned and treated with topical antibiotics. 

Generally, injection and ingestion are relatively uncommon in industry. An injection is a cut, puncture, or laceration that allows a toxin direct entry into the blood stream. Naturally, the effect of the toxin under these circumstances could be fast and intense. Ingestion, the swallowing of a toxin, is very rare but can happen. Most commonly it occurs if a person falls into a vessel full of a liquid or powder, or a line under pressure ruptures and the liquid strikes the worker in the face while they are talking (the mouth is open). 

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Opium is produced by lacerating the immature capsules of the plant. Care must be taken not to cut through the pericarp. After the latex has exuded and dried, the dark, resinous material is collected. This crude opium, which contains as much as 12-14% morphine, is then used directly or further purified (Tyler et al., 1981). The estimated legal world production of opium is more than 1000 metric tons from this, about 660 metric tons of codeine and 200 metric tons of morphine are prepared (Verpoorte et al., 1991). 

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