Hand injuries are serious. Protecting your fingers and hands is important for your work and quality of life. Work-related hand injuries are one of the leading reasons workers end up in the emergency room and miss work. Damage to the nerves in your fingers and hands, loss of a finger, a skin burn or allergic reaction, can negatively impact the quality of your work, your productivity – or worse – end your career and seriously detract from your quality of life. The cost of these types of injuries and illnesses to the construction industry is estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars each year.
Causes:
There are many hazards on construction sites that can result in a hand injury, including:
- Punctures, cuts or lacerations – caused by contact
with sharp, spiked or jagged edges on equipment, tools
or m...
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