Mechanical and other common hazards
This section discusses injuries that happen when parts of the body come into contact with moving machinery and other common hazards, and suggests how best practice design can eliminate these hazards.
Mechanical hazards include:
- Crushing
- Shearing
- Cutting or severing
- Entanglement
- Drawing-in or trapping
- Impact
- Stabbing or puncture
- Friction or abrasion
- High-pressure fluid injection
- Mobile machinery
Other common hazards include: