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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Factors Ergon Manuf. 2022 Aug;33(1):69–103. doi: 10.1002/hfm.20971

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).