What accidents at work occur in the furniture industry?
In the furniture industry, for years there have been many accidents caused by the operation of stationary as well as manual woodworking machines.
The descriptions of the circumstances of serious and fatal accidents from the accident protocols show that accidents during carpentry work most often occur as a result of direct contact of the operator’s fingers with the tools of working machine tools or recoil of the workpiece or its fragments.
In subsequent places, there are events related to pulling or screwing hands into moving elements of conveyors, falls, impacts or crushes by moving parts of machines, as well as related to improperly carried out ongoing operation and maintenance of machines. Isolated events involve electric shock, explosion and fire.
Direct contact of fingers or hands with working cutting tools is caused by the specificity of work on woodworking machines, especially with manual feed as well as with manual feeding or receiving material from the machine. During operation, the operator reaches his hands near the cutting tools, so his hands are almost constantly in the danger zone, which creates a dangerous situation that can lead to an accident. This is confirmed by statistics of the location of injuries as a result of accidents in the furniture industry.
When using hand machines, the risk of accidents is associated in particular with mechanical hazards, caused mainly by the short distance of the operator’s body and the tool during the operation, while at the same time it is not possible to completely cover the working tool.
On some machines, m.in drills and screwdrivers, the operator’s clothes, hair and body may be caught, weaved and pulled in by a rotating tool.
When using hand mechanized tools, there is a direct proximity of the human body and an exposed, moving cutting tool, a relatively high power of the tool with its low weight and the need to manually hold and guide it during operation. This makes it difficult to control the movements of the tool. Jamming of the tool in the material, loss of stability or reflection of the mechanized tool often contribute to injuries related to the direct contact of the operator’s body with the cutting tool.
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