Heavy Machinery Injury

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Construction sites offer numerous ways for minor injuries, serious injuries, and fatal injuries. Training for heavy machinery should not only include general safety practices but also for engines and high pressure lines, jacks and their uses, tire inflation, truck operations, dump truck operations, backhoe operations, and aerial lifts and cherry pickers to name a few.

There are ways to prevent most heavy machinery accidents. Some of the causes for heavy machinery injuries include machinery and tool failures; vehicle misuse; inadequate safety equipment, training, and clothing; lifting overly heavy loads; and exposure to toxic materials.

The spine, hands, head, lungs, eyes, skeleton, and skin are the primary areas of your body that are at a risk for heavy machinery injury.

• Fatal mining accidents occurred recently when pedestrians were struck by heavy equipment. Immediately before the incident, each of the victims was standing or walking in areas where the equipment operators did not expect them to be. In all cases, the victim had communicated with the equipment operator within five minutes before the accident. During these communications, the equipment operator was never warned that any pedestrian was near the area where the equipment was being operated.
  
  
• According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 92,560 private-sector lost-time injuries during the year 2002 were caused by machinery. The type of machine most often identified included metal, woodworking, and special materials machinery (19, 269 injuries); material handling machinery (16,183 injuries); special process machinery (15,576 injuries); heating, cooling and cleaning machinery (13,330 injuries); unspecified machinery (6,148 injuries) and construction, logging, and mining machinery (6,069 injuries). Machinery was identified as the primary source of fatal occupational injuries in 483 of 5,915 total fatalities during 2002.
  
  
• It’s not uncommon for workers to get seriously injured through limbs getting caught in machinery or being caught in between machines. Accidents often occur when employees reach into machines and a piece of clothing, jewelry, or hair gets caught. Accidents like this can be prevented if employees are trained properly. Accidents like this happen when workers are under physical or mental stress or their minds are not on the job. Most times these accidents could have been prevented through precautions and mindfulness.

Are you the victim of a heavy machinery injury? Have you lost a loved one from a fatal heavy machinery injury? Contact the Pennsylvania law firm Anapol Schwartz to find out how we can fight back on your behalf for a settlement that pays your medical bills and helps you cope with physical and emotion distress.