History in the making!
The Fluid Power Safety Institute launches a new era in Fluid Power Safety
The Fluid Power Safety Institute makes history by releasing the first in a series of safety DVD’s aimed at hydraulic safety. According to FPSI’s Founder and Director, Rory S. McLaren, hydraulic safety can no longer be ignored while accidents related to hydraulics, and especially “near-misses,” reach epidemic proportions.”
According to Mr. McLaren, “hydraulic safety is a “top down” problem – system design engineers; safety officials; supervisors and managers; and, State and Federal safety organizations, generally aren’t exposed to hydraulic safety issues. The net result, operators and technicians – the people in the trenches – routinely service and repair hydraulic systems by trial-and-error: accidents are inevitable!”
According to FPSI’s Director, “the industry’s most urgent problem is preventing debilitating oil injection injuries, so we made this our first priority.”
High-pressure injection injuries are becoming increasingly prevalent. Their innocuous appearance leads to underestimation of their severity and results in significant morbidity. An early referral to a hand surgeon may help in reducing morbidity.
The nature of the substance injected (volume, viscosity, and toxicity) the sight of injection; dispersal; pressure of injection; and delay in surgical treatment are believed to be the main factors that contribute to the outcome of injection injuries.
Most patients will require extensive postoperative hand therapy, prolonged healing time, and will usually be left with long-term motor and sensory deficits.
“The Lethal Strike” is an exceptional safety presentation, which focuses on the correct pre-hospitalization management of oil injection injuries. It is an absolute “must see” for everyone in the hydraulics industry – no exceptions!

Sounds like another great reason to have TRAINED/DEDICATED Fluid Power Maintenance and Engineering persons.

Fluid injection is something I always pointed out to my students in a Basic course. I told them Electrical types can get Electrocuted while us Hydraulic types have something almost as bad I dubbed "Lubricuted."

I've only seen one example of Fluid Injection, actually the aftermath a year later, and the person was still undergoing treatment trying to get rid of infection from the embedded contamination while still hoping to keep use of his hand and arm. What was left was not pleasant to look at.

I agree that there is just not enough of an educational focus on safety and safe practices in the job place where hydraulics are used or in fluid power education-based outlets like (do I dare I say it) Hydraulics & Pneumatics magazine...

Rory - I continue to encourage to you present our Editorial Team with proactive, sobering and come-home-to-your-family types of ideas...surely a "Fluid Power Safety"-column would fit in H&P.

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Uh, has this thread been edited? Why was my post deleted? Why was the link deleted?

haha, sorry. Déja vu...

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