OSHA issues cabinet press safety bulletin.(Talk Of The Trade)
American Drycleaner, January, 2004
OSHA recently issued safety bulletin No. SHIB 03-07-16, based on its investigation of an accident that killed the operator of a cabinet press at a Massachusetts plant in 2002.
The incident was caused by a semiautomatic cabinet shirt press. The unit consists of a single buck, which the operator "dresses" before it enters the cabinet containing the press heads. After the operator simultaneously depresses and holds the machine's two transfer buttons and a foot pedal, the buck enters the press. At the end of the cycle, the press opens automatically, and the buck emerges from the cabinet.
While an emergency stop button and safety bars on the machine cancel the cycle and protect operators from getting caught in the buck as it enters the cabinet, its...
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