Off-the-Job safety tips: don't let "tool time" become "ER".

Publication: Safety Now

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A national study published by Annals of Emergency Medicine sends an important message to men and women who receive power tools as gifts: Be careful.

According to researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), almost one-half of all finger amputations in men, ages 55 and older, were caused by power tools....

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