Author name: Satish Agrawal

According to the statistics provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labour’s census of fatal occupational injuries research file, 723 workers in the private sector died by coming in to contact with the moving objects and equipment’s- like overhead cranes in the year 2012.

Despite, the many advancements taken up by the companies ensuring workers safety, load-related injuries sometimes becomes inevitable. No matter, how trained they are or how great of a knowledge they have, load work and workers injuries seems inseparable.

Working in and around suspended load is common for construction workers. However, most of the time workers are not trained properly or are aware of the difficulties waiting ahead, which results in injuries or sometimes death