Bindery Safety/Ergonomics — Finishing Without Incident

* One young operator lost three fingers while adjusting knives on a three-knife trimmer unit on a saddle stitcher. Someone started the unit while he was still working on it.

* One employee was killed in an incident with an automatic palletizer. The worker wanted to make an adjustment to the electronic eye inside the palletizer. The person skipped proper procedure by scaling the safety fence around the machine. "The electronic eye saw the person, thought it was a bundle and crushed him to death," Jones says.