When a fatality or serious injury occurs at a nearby business in your industry, expect OSHA to pay a visit to look for similar hazards.

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Lack of machine guarding can prove fatal in all sorts of businesses.

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Do you work at a company that has more than one facility? It might pay to keep track of OSHA inspections at your company’s other facilities. Those other inspections can have an impact on you.

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A lawsuit in Florida alleges that lack of machine guarding left an employee disfigured.

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Next time you want to give employees a reminder about the hazards of loose clothing around machinery, you might want to use this story.

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