Does Machine Tool Production Cost at the Cost of Bleeding?

With the rapid rise of machine tool companies, machine tool accidents also occur frequently. The machine tool industry will also cause death and injury to operators during production. Is there a necessary battle between machine tool production and employee life? How to ensure the safety of the machine tool industry has become a topic of common concern for the industry.

Tragedy of the machine tool industry has occurred again and again

In the machine tool production workshop, there are always injuries to the employees. The lighter ones are bleeding and the others are losing their lives. In the 2009 movie “Painted Skin”, Zhou Xun’s scene of tearing up the mask was actually staged in production and life. A lathe worker in Zhangjiawan, Yongchuan did not wear a work cap during work. Long hair was pulled into the machine tool, making the entire scalp completely Avulsion, his head was instantly bloody and sent to the hospital by his colleagues. Although he was cured and discharged from the hospital, the dangers were astonishing.

In 2010, Northeast News reported that a 41-year-old middle-aged man in the Harbin Turbo Equipment Plant accidentally was caught in a lathe while working in a machining workshop and was seriously injured. After one day's rescue, he died.

In 2012, Wuxi New Media Network and Jiangnan Evening News both reported that the machine tool suddenly initiated a male-female incident. The incident was roughly when a man in Nanquan, Binhu District, repaired a CNC machine tool. Another employee suddenly pressed the power switch, causing the man's four fingers to be cut off. The doctor stated that the broken finger should be able to be connected, but the function of the hand will be affected.

The Yangcheng Evening News on August 17, 2013 reported a sad news. The seven-year-old girl's hair was drawn into the machine and was torn off from the nose to the scalp of the back of the head. Many days after the accident, the child was still lying in the ICU ward, wrapped in a thick gauze coma.

Bloody examples like this occur every year in the machine tool industry and are numerous. It is understood that the number of dead and injured machine tool safety accidents each year reached 1,000 people. The frequent occurrence of the machine tool industry tragedy deserves in-depth reflection on the machine tool industry. The rapid development of the domestic machine tool industry should also introduce relevant measures as soon as possible to prevent potential safety accidents.

Why machine accidents occur frequently

In the machine shop, there are certain reasons for the occurrence of tragedies. These reasons are not only related to the negligence of employees' personal precautions, but also have a close relationship with the company's normative system.

First of all, when many companies use ordinary lathes to process their jobs, they still need to work manually due to the low degree of automation of mechanical operations. This requires employees to concentrate their efforts on the operation of the machine tool for a long time. In this case, the operator will be fatigued. If there is no safety precaution and safety protection device, personal and equipment accidents are likely to occur.

Second, machine tool companies must strengthen the supervision and management of safety management. The company's safety management is a comprehensive task. It must not only have sound and strict management methods, but also have practical and safe technical measures to ensure. Involving people, equipment, processes, technology, and the environment, we must fundamentally improve the safety and security awareness of the machine tool personnel and technical protection measures.

Again, employees’ personal safety awareness is weak. The general safety operation procedures and operation methods of the employees of the machine tool companies are not appropriate. The operators randomly leave the running machine tools or deliver the fixtures on the running machine tools. This phenomenon is particularly serious in small and medium-sized machine tool companies. The employees themselves lacked safety awareness, and protective equipment was not worn in compliance with the regulations. For example, they did not wear protective glasses and gloves, they had long clothes and long hair on their shawls, they did not wear tight work clothes, they wore scarves, and they wore neckties and accessories.

Finally, there are safety hazards in machine tool equipment and unsafe factors in the environment of the machine tool, such as insufficient lighting, glare of light, noise interference, improper stacking of parts, incorrect placement of work clamps, lack of ventilation, oily ground, narrow space, and layout. Unreasonable, etc., these will seriously interfere with the operation of the machine tool personnel.