Common causes of mechanical accidents:

Mechanical accident means accidents that relate to machine operation or collapse of machine. These include cranes, powered industrial trucks, abrasive wheel and so on. Some common causes of mechanical accidents are shown below:


1. Injuries can result from elements of the workplace or components of machinery are thrown out during the operation of the machine, for example, sparks, chips and broken components


2. Injuries can result from operator's contact with sharp or abrasive surfaces


3. Parts of the body such as limbs are being trapped between closing or passing motions of the machine


4. Wrong operation of crane or excavator to crash people


5. Collapse of crane