Tractor noise
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1970
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Volume
- 1
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-6870
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โฆ Synopsis
operations, such as felling, de-limbing, cutting, dragging or walking at the work place, shows no significant variation. The only essential differences between the official statistics and the near accidents concerned 'kick-back of the power saw' and 'falling when walking'. Officially, about 50% of de-limbing accidents is due to kick-back, yet the study showed only 30%. Falling, however is much more frequent among the near accidents.
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