What foot injuries are common at work? It’s no accident that a lot of construction workers wear steel-toed boots. Foot injuries can happen on the job, and having the right type of footwear is crucial. Every occupation needs something different to keep injuries to a minimum. Generally speaking, foot injuries are going to fall into two categories. The first category includes lacerations, punctures and crushing injuries. These [...]

The threat of moving parts With machines, most of the danger revolves around the moving parts. The way injuries happen may be different — a person’s hair getting caught in a spinning wheel, for instance, or a person’s hand being crushed by two flat plates moving against one another — but they often come back to the threat of working around machines with moving parts. The first [...]