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Foot Protection Essentials

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From the OHS Online news article:

A document listing severe work-related injuries reported to OSHA from Jan. 1, 2015, through March 31, 2017, is available online, and it makes sobering reading. Amputations, slips and falls, crushing injuries, and many more types of serious incidents from federal OSHA states are listed there. Slips and foot injuries are common, such as this one from January 2015 in St. Louis:

“An employee was setting a string of four railcars in the yard with his groundsman. The groundsman secured the ground hand brake on the first railcar and unhooked the string from the railcar. The employee noticed a railcar starting to move as the manual ground brake on the first railcar failed. He attempted to set the brake on the second car when the railcar wheel smashed his steel toe boot to the ground, fracturing his right foot and removing a toenail.”

Read more at the link:

https://ohsonline.com/Articles/2018/01/01/Foot-Protection-Essentials.aspx

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