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A butcher's manager stood on a chopping block to reach for goods on
tcp of a refrigerator. He slipped on to the floor and lacerated his hand and
sustained bruising. Well constructed step ladders had been provided by the
Company and which the manager had failed to use.
In a multiple store the staff used the door glazing to push open the door
instead of using the push plates provided. An assistant pushed her hand
through the glass, sustaining laceration of the hand and lower arm. The firm
have, as a result, supplied a reinforced glass panel in an endeavour to
prevent further accidents.
A workman cleaning the ceiling of a warehouse from the top of a ladder
fell with the ladder to the cpncrete floor, a distance of 15 ft., sustaining
injuries to his back. He had failed to carry out Company instructions to
secure the ladder to the crossbeam at the top before commencing work.
An employee, slicing meat on a powered machine, pressed meat against
the blade instead of using the last slice device. He sustained laceration of
his thumb.
An accident that could have had serious consequences took place in a
refrigerated store of a supermarket. An employee, in stooping down to lift
meat struck his head against a shelf on rising and was rendered temporarily
unconscious. Fortunately, a member of the staff entered the refrigerator very
shortly after the accident and found the injured person on the floor and
brought him out. The firm have taken measures to ensure that the store is
regularly visited and that, so far as possible, two persons ere together in
the store. An electric switch, connected with an alarm bell, has also been
installed in the store.
An accident occurred in the offices of an Insurance Company when an
electrician fell through the open flap in the floor to the cellar beneath sustaining
bruises to back and ankle injury. While it is true that the electrician
raised the flap himself, the Society were instructed to take all necessary
measures to prevent as far as possible future accidents by providing a
warning notice and also providing fencing to be used when the flap is in the
open position.
Accidents are common among people using knives. There seems to be a
general lack in training persons how to use a knife when preparing food for
sale.
Too many accidents are caused by persons slipping on wet floors.
Approaches have been made to managements as far as possible to ensure
that floors are washed prior to staff arriving at the premises for duty.
Accidents due to "horseplay„still occur. The cause is usually determined
as a result of close questioning and patient enquiry.
One accident on a fork lift truck occurred when the driver was conveying
a worker who was standing astride on the forks of the truck. On crossing a
joint in the concrete floor the man riding on the forks lost his balance and