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OSHA: Worker's amputation caused by lack of machine guards

Hailiang Copper Texas cited for 24 serious safety, health violations for ignoring machine safety requirements.

October 2, 2024

The OSHA investigation determined that the Texas plant's operator failed to install required machine guards or locking devices, exposing workers to hazardous contact with moving machine parts.

Safety first: Protecting workers in the oil and gas industry as fatalities and injuries are on the rise

Rose Morrison

September 4, 2024

Workers in the oil and gas industry, whether they work with pipelines, on oil rigs, as drivers or at well sites, face higher incidence and mortality rates.

Recovery roadmap: The journey from injury to safe return

Curt DeWeese, PT Kyle Schmoyer

November 20, 2023

This guide provides an in-depth look at the necessary steps for a safe and efficient return to work, highlighting the vital roles of structured recovery plans, return-to-work assessments, and on-site therapy.

Mail-order limb, rerouted nerve, and prosthetic hand grips like the real thing

February 12, 2020

Doctors met a patient at a surgical center outside Boston to invent a new operation, a way to perform arm amputations that might allow patients to move their prosthetic hands more like real ones. The right arm resting on a blue surgical drape before them came from a cadaver; it’s just the limb, ending at the shoulder. It came from the Anatomy Gifts Registry. Devising a new operation is like re-engineering the anatomy.

Boy has hand reattached after it was sliced off by lawn mower

February 12, 2020

Shaurya Undre’s left hand was completely severed while playing with his father Mukesh’s lawn mower in India. The boy was rushed to hospital where surgeons painstakingly reattached it at the wrist – matching up the veins and arteries – during a six-hour operation.

Many eye problems seen at emergency departments aren’t emergencies

April 20, 2018

It's usually better to be safe than sorry when you get injured, but when it comes to common eye injuries and conditions, many people may be a little too cautious. That's the conclusion of investigators at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Howard University Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, whose research was published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.

Dos and don'ts when you scratch your eye

April 20, 2018

People are usually very good at keeping things out of their eyes. Eyelashes help protect the eyes, our reflexes can snap our eyelids closed to block objects and our tears will wash out most dust or dirt that does get by. But accidents can still happen. Housework and sports are common eye injury causes.

When foreign objects contact the eye

April 20, 2018

A foreign object could be a piece of dust, grit, or other substance that comes in contact with the eye. Most of the time, these objects are so small, we don’t notice them – and when they get into the eye, they’re harmless and easily removable. However, depending on the object and how deeply it enters the eye, foreign objects can be serious.

What to do after a slip and fall accident

March 15, 2017

Maybe you slipped and fell on an icy sidewalk outside your apartment. Perhaps you tripped over an unsecured electrical cord at your workplace. Or maybe your elderly mother fell at a nursing home. What should you do after you or a loved one is injured in a slip-and-fall accident?

Day of Mourning: Remember the dead, commit to prevention

Remembering lives lost or injured in the workplace

March 28, 2013

In 2011, 919 workers in Canada lost their lives to a disease or injury they incurred from work-related causes. Even more disturbing, is that eight of those who died were teenagers; twenty-six were between the ages of twenty and twenty-four years. There are close to three work-related deaths each day in Canada - each one leaving a trail of pain for the families impacted by the loss of a husband, wife, father, mother, brother, sister, son or daughter.