Moving objects, injuries

Manual handling, that is, moving objects by hand, may result in strains, sprains and trap injury pains. 

Falls and the impact of moving objects typically cause accidents resulting in injury... 

Manual material handling is a common activity in most occupational environments. Workers handle raw materials, tools, finished materials, containers, and packing materials on a daily basis. Moving objects, regardless of weight, can result in arm, back, and leg strain. The costs of injuries due to material handling are enormous— from both medical treatment and workers compensation. Losses from these injuries are compounded when the days absent from work are factored in. 

Moving object. May be prompted by elevators, ramps, road vehicles (tankers, articulated lorries), dumpers, fork-lift trucks, stackers, cranes, rail wagons, or robots. Immediate consequence physical injury to personnel or damage to equipment. 

Brain-Controlled Interfaces. A two-electrode device was implanted into a 1998 stroke victim who could communicate only by blinking his eyes. The device read from only a few neurons and allowed him to select letters and icons with his brain. A team of researchers helped a young patient with a spinal cord injury by implanting electrodes into his motor cortex that were connected to an interface. The patient was able to use the system to control a computer cursor and move objects using a robotic arm. 

Information on the circumstances that contribute to injury such as the causative factors in manual handling injuries that include lifting, twisting, repetitive actions, or posture while moving objects of weight. 

In the United States, machinery is one of the top four sources of compensable work injuries and accounts for nearly 10 percent of all injuries. The other sources are manual handling accidents, which cause 23 percent of all injuries falls, 20 percent and struck by falling or moving objects, 14 percent. 

Moving objects may cause injury by squeezing, shearing, or pinching either of body parts coming into direct contact with the moving... 

What do we know about kinetic energy, the (almost) universal direct cause of injury in a crash on the road We have known for more than three centuries—since Isaac Newton described the laws of motion in the seventeenth century—that the amount of kinetic energy generated by a moving object is a function of halfihe mass (the weight) of the object multiplied by the square (multiplying the number by itself) of its velocity (speed), so speed is far and away the key determinant of the amount of the force unleashed in a crash. 

Never reach under the walkie truck to clear a jam or to search for foreign objects. Injury can occur when someone else moves the truck. Always turn the key off when inspecting the walkie unit. Figure 10-17 serves as a reminder of this safety rule. 

The caught between injury is one of the most common. The term pinch point comes into play for this type of injury. Pinch points are very common in warehouses. This type of injury is one in which the employee has a part of his body pinched, crushed, or otherwise caught between a moving object and a stationary object, or between two moving objects. 

Impact accidents involve a worker being struck by or striking against an object. Impact accidents are more frequent during turnarounds when a lot of equipment is being moved, lifted, and transferred around. The next most prominent cause of work injuries is falls. Operators, instrument technicians, and analyzer technicians do a lot of climbing on towers... 

Devices used to protect the head from injury. These include safety helmets or hard hats that are primarily used to protect the head from falling objects or overhead hazards industrial scalp protectors such as bump caps that protect against striking fixed objects, scalping, or entanglement and caps and hair nets, which are used to prevent the hair from coming in contact with moving machinery or the parts of machinery. 

Crushing injuries These injuries occur when a body part is caught between two hard surfaces moving progressively together and crushing any item or object that comes between them. 

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