New York Machinery Amputation Lawyer

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Amputations are an awful workplace accident. Common sources of amputation injuries in the workplace are often caused by machinery that is poorly maintained or lacks adequate safety guards. Such machinery includes:

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Common Mechanical Hazards that Lead to Amputation Injuries

Mechanical components that can cause amputation hazards include:

• Reciprocating – the up and down or back and forth action could strike a worker or enter an operator between a fixed object and a moving part
• Point of operation – this is the area of a machine where it performs its work on a material
• Rotating – the circular movements of flywheels, couplings, spindles, cams, and shaft ends, as well as rotating collards, can grip clothing or force a part of the body into a dangerous space
• Power transmission apparatuses – pulleys, flywheels, chains, spindles, cams, belts, and gears, as well as connecting rods and various other components that transmit energy are hazardous. Mechanical motion is also dangerous.
• Punching – motion occurs when a machine moves a slide to stamp a material
• Transversing – movement in a continuous and straight line could catch or strike a worker in a shear point created between the fixed and moving objects
• Pinch points – these occur when two parts move simultaneously, and one point moves in a circular motion that rollers, gears, pulleys, and belt drives generate
• Shearing – the movements of a powered knife or slide during metal shearing or trimming
• Cutting – the action produced during boring, millings, sawing, slitting, drilling, and slicing
• Bending – that action that occurs when power is applied to a slide to form or draw metal or any other materials

Machinery Safety Protocols in New York City

OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) have certain lockout and tagging standards that include tag-out and lockout devices being affixed to energy isolating devices to de-energize machines. The following construction regulations must be followed to ensure safety in the workplace:

• Training should cover at least three areas: elements of the relevant power control procedure for the employee’s assignment or duties; all aspects of the employer’s energy control program; and the applicable requirements related to the OSHA standards for tag-out or lockout.
• Employers must ensure that overhauled, or new machinery can be locked out.
• Employers must ensure that tag-out or lockout devices can identify individual users.
• Employers have to develop, implement, and enforce a tag-out program if equipment or machines cannot be locked out.
• Employees should be trained to make sure they know and understand the applicable provisions of the energy control procedures and should follow those procedures meticulously.
• Employers must establish a policy permitting only the staff who applied the tag-out or lockout device to remove it.
• Employers must ensure that lockout devices can be locked out. If not, tag-out devices can be used but only if the program provides employee protection that is equivalent to that provided via a lockout system.
• Employers have to provide adequate training for all employees as covered by the standard.
• Develop, document, and then implement and enforce energy control procedures.
• Companies must comply with the extra energy provisions according to the standards when machines or other equipment have to be repositioned or tested, when outside contractors work on the site, during personnel or shift changes, or in group lockout situations.
• Energy control procedures should be inspected annually at a minimum.
• Only tag-out or lockout devices authorized for the particular machine or equipment should be used, and they should be substantial, standardized, and durable.

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