Your role as a supervisor is to identify and correct unsafe work practices and help to create and enforce safe work practices so your workers can avoid struck-by and caught-between injuries and incidents. Let’s start by defining our terms.

• A struck‐by incident is when the impact alone creates an injury. For example, a worker is hit and injured by a tool or equipment.
  • Struck-by incidents are often related to improper material handling and unsafe practices around heavy equipment, tools, and machinery.
  • Struck-by injuries can result in blindness, concussions, permanent brain damage, and other serious injuries.
• A caught‐in or ‐between incident is when an injury is a result of the crushing force between two objects.
  • This includes getting caught or crushed in operating equipment, […]

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