Workers can be extremely careful about keeping their hands away from machine controls, but overlook the possibility that a shirt pocket or other piece of clothing can snag onto those controls, with disastrous consequences.

A 63-year-old shift supervisor at a food processing plant in Oregon died in February 2006 while operating a tote (box) dumping machine. He activated the machine to raise and tilt a large box of frozen French fries into a hopper, and then leaned over the edge of the hopper. His purpose in doing so appears either to have been to dislodge fries remaining in the tote, […]