ABSTRACT
According to National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) National Traumatic Occupational Fatality (NTOF) data from 1980 to 1998 occupational injury from machinery was ranked third after motor vehicle and homicide as causes of death. Fatalities from machine-related incidents accounted for approximately 13% of the total. The service industry did not rank among the highest sectors having machine-related incidents. Some of the leading injuries experienced in these industries were as follows: struck by or against an object, caught in or compressed by equipment, and caught in or crushed in collapsing materials.
