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Trainer warns ‘line of fire’ incidents are common and avoidable
Summary
At a Safety Moments session, presenter Mike Stagg outlined how “struck by” and “caught in/between” incidents — OSHA’s focus hazards — cause frequent workplace injuries and gave practical steps employees can take to reduce risk.
Mike Stagg, a safety presenter at the trust, told staff at a Safety Moments briefing that “these are some serious, serious accidents” and said the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has classified struck-by and caught-in/between incidents among its focus hazards. Stagg said those accident types are the trust’s third-most-common cause of workplace injury.
Stagg described struck-by injuries as forcible contact between a person and a moving object — for example, a falling tool or a pipe that slips while being lifted — and caught-in/between injuries as a person being pinched, crushed or compressed between two objects, such as a hand caught in a truck tailgate or a foot run over by a…
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