Hazards of Abrasive Blasting Materials
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the overall incidence rate of cases involving non-fatal occupational injury and illnesses which required absence from work to recuperate in 2014 was 107.1 cases for every 10,000 full-time workers. There were 1,157,410 days-away-from-work cases in state government, local government, and private industry. The same year, the preliminary total of fatal work injuries was 4,679. Abrasive blasting is a job that comes with high risk of injury. Compressed air or water is used to direct a high-velocity stream of abrasive material to clean a surface or object, apply a texture, remove burrs or prepare a surface to apply