An employee is injured while using a new machine during training. The training didn’t exactly mimic how employees would operate the machine in “real life.” Did that argument get the company off the hook for an OSHA fine?

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Tags: injured during training, machine guard, OSHA fine, Safety training, Turner Industries

An employee is suing a company after he lost three fingers in a workplace incident.

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Tags: machine guard, table saw, worker loses fingers

Imagine this. A machine in your workplace has a sharp blade that chops things. Do you really have to tell employees not to stick their hands near the blade when the machine is running?

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Tags: common sense, machine guard, warning sign, Workers' comp

Safety pros know the risks involved with slippery surfaces and machinery that’s not properly guarded. Here’s a case in which the two combined to create a disabling injury for one employee.

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Tags: disabling injury, machine guard, slippery surfaces