In the new video below, it’s a farm worker during the harvest. But it happens in all industries – when effective safeguards are not put in place (in this case there was also a failure to lock out machinery and a lack of supervision and training).

Manufacturing, for one, is an industry in which “several hundred workers injure their hands due to missing or inadequate safeguarding,” reads Safeguarding Machinery and Equipment: General Requirements from WorkSafeBC. These injuries are so preventable.

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