Safe Work with Power Saws: Hazard Alert

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• Corporate Authors:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Description:
  Thousands of workers are seriously injured each year by gas or electric power saws. Some are killed - most by electric shock. The Hazards: You can be badly cut or burned, using a power saw, if you are not careful. You can get sprains and strains and lose your hearing. Grit and dust from using the saws can hurt your eyes. Dust can hurt your lungs. If you dry-cut masonry or stone that has silica in it, you can get silicosis and it can kill you. An electric saw can electrocute you. A gas-powered saw can cause carbon monoxide poisoning and kill you. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Burns Construction Industry Construction Materials Dust Ear Electric Injuries Electricity Eye Eye Foreign Bodies Hearing Loss Lung Mortality Noise Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Respiratory Protective Devices Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Safety Management Sense Organs Sense Organs / Injuries Silicon Dioxide Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-potential Accident-prevention Construction Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-materials Construction-workers Cutting-tools Dust-masks Dust-particles Dusts Ear-protection Electrical-burns Electrical-charge Electrical-conductivity Electrical-equipment Electrocutions Eye-injuries Eye-irritants Eye-protection Gases Hand-tools Hazards Hearing-loss Injuries Injury-prevention Lung-irritants Mortality-data Noise-exposure Personal-protection Poison-gases Power-tools Respiratory-protection Respiratory-system-disorders Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Silica-dusts Tools Work-environment Work-practices Worker-health

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• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Publisher:
  The Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20039608
• Citation:
  Silver Spring, MD: The Center to Protect Workers' Rights, 2001 Sep; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Building and Construction Trades Dept., AFL-CIO: CPWR, Suite 1000, 8484 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
• CAS Registry Number:
  Carbon monoxide (CAS RN 630-08-0) ; Quartz (SiO2) (CAS RN 14808-60-7) ; Silica (CAS RN 7631-86-9)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  Center to Protect Workers' Rights
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19940930
• Source Full Name:
  Safe work with power saws: hazard alert
• End Date:
  20000331
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9e43b7b81a192380ac0b4fdc75aeb1813d12947daa3f72c971ab29f25ac043a773cefedfead6570a7442decfc474ebefb14f9ae74398a5ba7c2eac67c76f7014
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/213096/cdc_213096_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 352.69 KB ]