Top 10 Heavy Equipment Safety Tips for Incident Prevention

    Jan. 16, 2020
    It does not matter what level of training the operators or those on site have; there are specific safety tips to avoid injury.

    According to a report on the United States Department of Labor, 5,250 employees died on the job because of work-related injuries in 2018. Twenty-one percent of the fatalities were in the construction industry.

    The deaths were attributable to falling objects, electrocution, and caught in-between. The latter refers to a worker dying due to getting stuck, struck or crushed by equipment or objects.

    It does not matter what level of training the operators or those on site have; there are specific safety tips to avoid injury. Here are 10 of the best ways to prevent accidents from heavy equipment.

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