Machine Guarding eTool
Thermoforming Machine » Safety Tour - Slide 29
Featured areas in the image are numbered and described in the "Featured Areas" section located below the image.
Featured Areas
This is the touch screen. It poses no hazards. [Photo description: Highlighted area includes a monitor screen suspended by a hanging arm about a foot away from the side of the machine.] View close-up
This adjustable guard prevents worker access to moving plastic sheet or machinery. [Photo description: The highlighted area includes a sheet of orange metal covering an area housing moving parts.] View close-up
End view of the stacker and scrap rewinder. [Photo description: The highlighted area includes the end of the machine with a round spool with two prongs on one end where the trim scrap is rewound. Also shown are some internal pieces of the stacker.] View close-up
Close-up image of the touch screen.
This is the touch screen. It poses no hazards.
[Photo description: Highlighted area includes a monitor screen suspended by a hanging arm about a foot away from the side of the machine.]
Close-up image of the adjustable guard.
A properly applied adjustable guard controls worker access to moving plastic sheet or machinery.
[Photo description: Photo includes a sheet of orange metal covering an area housing moving parts.]
Close-up image of the end view of the stacker.
End view of the stacker and scrap rewinder.
[Photo description: Photo shows an end view of the thermoforming machine which includes parts of the stacker and adjustable guard.]