Opportunities abound for accidents in a warchouse. More than 145,000 people work in more than 7,000 warehouses in the United States and the fatal injury-rate for those workers is higher than the national average across all other industries, according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Non-fatal accidents may have serious consequences, too. Broken bones, sprained backs, poisoning, and other injuries can cause pain, put people out of work, and generate hospital bills. Warehouse workers often run risks when they use forklifts unsafely, stack products improperly, fail to use personal protective equipment, ignore correct lockout or tagout procedures, take inadequate fire safety precautions, or do work that involves repetitive motion, notes OSHA.
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