Appendix A: Common Exposures or Accident Types

Appendix A Common Exposures or Accident Types The common exposures or accident types help standardize the review of hazards. There are 11 basic types of accidents:

. Struck-against

. Struck-by

. Contact-with

. Contacted-by

. Caught-in

. Caught-on

. Caught-between

. Fall-to-same-level

. Fall-to-below

. Overexertion

. Exposure

Hazards should be looked with these common accident types in mind to identify procedures, processes, occupations, and tasks, which present a hazard that could cause one of the accident types in the following section.