How to keep away from heavy tools disaster?
We all know that the heavy construction equipment tools or other heavy gears are huge and extremely unsafe. Construction work places are very risky and we can expect sudden fatal accidents and disasters, each employee at such workplaces have to be extremely cautious and alert while handling such heavy tools. It is important for every single one of the workers to follow protection guidelines to keep away from possible disasters at all times. Any unconscious act can cause severe damage and risk to the worker’s life. And other possible kinds of mishaps, construction accidents also take place regularly due to a person’s carelessness or usage of defective instruments.
It has been examined that a huge number of mishaps are reported every year that takes place at construction sites and account for the casualty or injury of employees. For all the mentioned mishaps the project owners bear heavy losses in shape of manpower and money, but the workers of these families also suffer from serious loss and go through the pain.
So what are the general kinds of accidents that usually happen in construction place?
Categorization of construction mishaps or heavy tools disasters can be done on the basis of their ruthlessness. Most of the accidents can be caused either due to design ignorance, tool failures, and employee’s negligence or simply due to natural disaster causes. On the based on the intensity of losses occurs with such heavy gear accidents are also called the residential building site mishaps, excavate accidents and road construction site disasters.
A few types of heavy tools accidents can be listed as:
Saw Blade Accidents
Elevator Accidents
Forklift Accidents
Scaffolding Failure
Power Tool Accidents
Welding Equipment Accidents
Ladder Accidents
Crane and Truck Accidents
Cable and Rope Accidents
To mention some of them other categories may be listed as fire and explosions, demolition of building components, labor related disasters, and falling of objects. The OSHA department (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) categorized all the violations leading factors to disasters and mentioned safety steps to prevent any unexpected mishaps.
Some employment related tragedies can be listed as:
Painter Accidents
Union worker Accidents
Carpenter Accidents
Maintenance Worker Accidents
Brick Layer Accidents
Iron Worker Accidents
Plumber Accidents
Based on the construction schemes type or position they can be categorized as the tunnel construction accidents, parking garage collapse, demolition mishaps, highway and road construction, residential building site accidents, mine accidents, and bridge building site disasters, etc.
What are the general causes of tragedies in work sites with heavy tools?
The majority general accidents involving being struck by tools, gear or being hit by falling objects usually takes place due to careless planning of the work site storage, failure of tool belts to ensure protection while using them, lack of toe boards on scaffolding.
Wrong usage of huge construction vehicles in the work site can also lead to critical disasters.
Certain ditching disasters may put worker’s life in danger of being trapped under mud and rocks, increasing the chance of having breathing of poisonous fumes and falling in underground water. The contemptible excavation wall support, malfunction of protective used heavy equipment, failed soil inspection and dangerous passage into and out of the ditch may cause such kind of construction accidents.
