The list of hazards in this photo includes, but is not limited to:
- Lack of hearing protection;
- Lack of eye protection; and
- Improper equipment positioning.
What did we miss? We invite you—as employers and workers in the landscape industry—to share your expertise. Email your responses to LM Editor Marisa Palmieri (mpalmieri@northcoastmedia.net). We’ll publish your responses with the online version of this story.
Reader feedback
- May be wrong equipment for that plant, placing the employee more at risk.
- Lack of work gloves.
- Lack of leg protection
- Lack of hard hat and colored vest. As you work the site, other thing come into play. You’re looking down a lot as you work and miss the low hanging branch that hit you in the head. Or you could step off a curb into the parking lot or traffic.
- Maybe a back support belt if he doesn’t have one.
Scott Nielsen
