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A hot-surface warning light is a safety device, so it must operate reliably whenever the surface is hot.

A worker was injured when her arm became trapped in a machine for stapling closed plastic bags containing turkeys. The machine had no safety interlocks or emergency-stop provisions.

A universal joint on a hay grinder broke loose and struck the machine’s operator in the chest. The machine was experiencing severe vibration and operating without a guard at the time of the accident.

A worker was severely burned after he accidentally slipped into a tank of molten zinc. He had received no training or warnings about the hazards of the work area.

A worker’s hand was injured when it got caught in a dough-cutting machine. Poor training, the wrong tools, and bad ergonomics contributed to the accident.

Readers’ comments on a Safety Files cases involving a fatal mower fire reveal little change in mower design and a feeling that users should take responsibility for equipment maintenance.

A worker was killed when his hooded sweatshirt caught on a moving conveyor during maintenance activities he wasn’t trained for.

Suffocation and a broken neck killed a man stuck behind the guard of a conveyor tail pulley. Several safety lapses led to the death, another instance of insufficient conveyor safety.

A worker was suffocated when a supervisor restarted a conveyor he was working on and his hands were caught in its machinery. The incident was one of many involving conveyors that are part of larger machines.

A man’s foot was seriously injured when it slipped under his self-propelled mower. Poor foot-guard design and a lack of operator-presence controls contributed to the accident.

A man died from burns suffered when his mower caught fire. Leaking gas, exposed wiring, and cover geometry contributed to the fatality

 A wiring bundle feeding add-on electronics started a fire that destroyed a truck

Poor adjustment led to the premature failure of a recycling truck’s lift mechanism. The lift broke and dropped a recycling cart, injuring a worker.

A worker inflating a truck tire was injured when the tire’s sidewall blew out.