Table 1.
Summary of Safety Intervention Grant expenditures and affected employees by equipment technology category. (USD = United States Dollars)
Equipment Classification | No. of case studies | Sum of affected employees | Equipment Cost (2016 USD) |
Avg affected employees/case study | Avg cost per case study (2016 USD) |
Cost/Affected employee (2016 USD) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Industrial Robots* | 15 | 207 | 1,165,174 | 13.8 | 77,678 | 5,629 |
CNC Machines | 29 | 411 | 3,097,845 | 14.2 | 106,822 | 7,537 |
Automated Systems** | 16 | 205 | 2,055,382 | 12.8 | 128,461 | 10,026 |
Note: summary includes 60 of 63 case studies.
Excludes two case studies (#15, #44) with number of affected employees documented by employer as 155 and 216. See text description.
Excludes one case study (#4) with equipment cost of $5.175 million (2016 USD).