Machine Hazards

  1. Wood Working

Machine Name / Potential Hazards and Injuries
Router Table
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  • Safety Hazards
  • Rotating/sharp cutting blade- serious lacerations or amputation
  • In-running Nip Points -clothing, hair, or hands may be caught by and pulled into the in-running rolls)
  • Point of operation-Contact with the moving blade may occur.
  • Kickbacks- stock caught in the blade or fed in the wrong direction may be thrown back at the operator.
  • Flying chips: workpiece, wood chips and splinters may be thrown by the cutting action- eye, face, skin injuries
  • Tool projection
  • Electrical Hazards
  • Noise
  • Fire and Explosions Hazards
  • Sawdust
  • Flammable materials such as paints, oil finishes, solvent, etc.
  • Health Hazards
  • wood dust
  • Dermatitis
  • Allergic respiratory effects
  • Cancer
  • Vibration
  • hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS)
  • Finishing Chemicals
Reference: OSHA Woodworking Hazards

Yale Practices for Tool Safeguarding and Controls
Band Saw

Saw Stop Table Saw

Panel Saw

Miter Saw

Combination Belt Sander & disk Sander
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  • Safety Hazards
  • Pinch point: contact with disc or belt may occur- crushing, bruising
  • Rotating pulleys, belts ‐ entanglement
  • In-running nip points—Clothing, hands, or hair may get caught by and pulled into the in-running rolls on automatic sanders or sanding belts.
  • Flying chips: Wood splinters and chips may be thrown from the sanding action- eye, face, skin injuries
  • Fire and Explosions Hazards
  • Produce fine dust
  • Electrical Hazards
  • Noise
  • Health Hazards
  • Fine dust
Reference: OSHA Woodworking Hazards

Tale Practices for Tool Safeguarding and Controls
Oscillating Spindle Sander

Drill Press
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  • Safety Hazards
  • Sharp cutting bit – minor lacerations, punctures
  • Clutter with chips and scraps
  • Rotating chuck and bit –entanglement
  • Flying objects – from parts working or centrifugal throw (chuck key, part) – eye, face, skin injuries
  • Torque exerted on work piece – impact Electrical Hazards
  • noise
Reference: OSHA Woodworking eTool

Yale Practices for Tool Safeguarding and Controls
  1. Metal Working & Hot Zone

Tig and Mig Welders
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  • Asphyxiation: Compressed gas, including inert gas
  • Eye injuries: caused by exposure to ultraviolet and infrared radiation created from the arc
  • Noise
  • Electrical hazards
  • Heat/burns
  • Fire hazards
  • Health Hazards
  • Welding fumes and gases: eye, nose and throat irritation, dizziness and nausea; prolonged exposure can cause lung diseases; metal fume fever; kidney
Reference: BOC

OSHA Fact Sheet

Hydraulic Ironworker Machine
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  • Pinch Points: there are gears and exposed moving parts on machinery.
  • Electrical Hazard
  • noise
  • High Sound Levels (Noise)
  • Foot Injury
Reference: Thompson Rivers University


Cold Saw

Metal Chop Saw
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  • High speed rotating cutting wheels and shafts-lacerations, amputations
  • Flying objects- eye, face, skin injuries
  • Pinch point hazards
  • Heat/sparks- burns, fire
  • Dust exposure
  • Noise exposure
Reference: Yale Environmental Health & Safety

Metal Drill Press
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  • Sharp cutting bit – minor lacerations, punctures
  • Rotating chuck and bit- entanglement
  • Caught between- crushing
  • Flying objects-from parts working or centrifugal throw (chuck key, part)- eye, face, skin injuries
  • Higher torque on work piece – impact injuries
  • noise
Reference: Yale Practices for Tool Safeguarding and Control
Hydraulic Press
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  • Caught between- crushing
  • Flying objects – eye, face, skin injuries

Metal Band Saw
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  • Cutting blade – lacerations, amputation
  • Rotating blade pulleys – pinch points, entanglement
  • Flying objects – eye, face, skin injuries
  • noise

CNC Plasma and Water Table (Plasma Cutter)
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  • Noise
  • Plasma-ocular injury, burns
  • Heat- burns, fire

Finger Brake
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  • Cut hazard – finger crushing
  • Pinching hazard- entanglement
  • Sharp edges and burrs
  • Impact from counterweight

Metal Brake

Roll Bender
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  • Caught between / pinch points – crushing, amputation
  • Contact with sharp edges of metal sheets
  • Impact from handles or bending beam
  • Electrical hazards

Tube Bender

  1. CNC Router & Laser Cutter

5 Axis CNC Router
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  • Safety Hazards
  • Sharp cutting tool – lacerations,amputation
  • Rotating tool –entanglement
  • Flying objects – eye, face, skin injuries
  • Electrical Hazards
  • Noise
  • Fire and Explosions Hazards
  • Sawdust or other material dust
  • Flammable materials such as paints, oil finishes, solvent, etc.
  • Health Hazards
  • Wood/foam dust
  • Dermatitis
  • Allergic respiratory effects
  • Cancer

4 Axis and 3 Axis CNC Router

Laser Cutter Station
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  • Laser – ocular injury, burns
  • Fire hazard ‐ burns, fire
  • Laser generated air contaminants
Reference: Laser Cutter Safety

Brick Saw
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  • Push-Back, Kick-back, or Pull-in
  • Flying objects- eye, face, skin injuries
  • Electrical hazardous
  • Noise
  • vibration
  • Hazardous dust
Reference: Risk And Hazards Associated With Concrete Cutting