A clean-up person at a veneer manufacturing plant died as a result of wounds received after being struck by a rotating cut-off saw. What happened? The victim and a co-worker were in the process of clearing a jammed log from the sawline while the cut-off saw was rotating. Another coworker, located in the sawline control room, was notified to stop the saw rotation. He reached for the saw rotation stop switch, located next to the cut-off cycling switch on the control panel, but he inadvertently pushed the cut-off cycling switch The rotating saw cycled through its stroke across the sawline, striking […]
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