Is Your Unicorn Housebroken?

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THE CENTER FOR CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS
RESEARCH

• Mission Chartered in 1993 with the Ben Franklin
  Partnership to serve as the focal point of
  ergonomic service to small-sized Pennsylvania
  industries
• Provide individualized attention
• Job and worksite analyses
• Hazard control, engineering redesign
• Ergonomics training

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PROCEDURES

• Contacts brochure, calls, trade shows
• Initial exploratory visit, proposal
• On-site videotaping, data collection
• Analyses CTD Risk, NIOSH, UM3D, JSA
• Productivity line balancing, machine coupling,
  bottlenecks, layouts
• Written report with recommendations
• Ergonomics training

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RESULTS Success Stories

• In 10 years, serviced 60 companies
• Two long-term members
• Automobile carpet manufacturer
• 74 reduction in injuries
• 689,000 decrease Workers Comp
• Meat packer workstation redesigns, meat hook
  handles (patent pending)

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CARPET MOLDING (MMH)
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CARPET MOLDINGTrimming Hammering
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RESEARCH - Knife
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MEAT PACKINGSplitter (Knuckle puller)
Fabrication (Trimming)
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Weasand Clipper (sights/sounds)
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TESTING OF MEAT HOOKS
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TYPES OF MEAT HOOKS
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TANNING INDUSTRY (2 in PA)

• Dehairing
• Fleshing
• High forces -100 lbs
• Putrid, maggots,
• smell !!!
• Dipping
• Lift 100 lbs
• Postures

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LEATHER INDUSTRY
Pinch
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POULTRY PROCESSING
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FOUNDRIES

• Despruing tendinitis
• Ladles high forces

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BOILERS castings, boring
60 lbs
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ASSEMBLY OPERATIONS
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GARMENT INDUSTRY

• Bad postures
• Hi reps
• Hi forces
• Piece rate

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GARMENT INDUSTRY
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T-SHIRT TURNING

• T-shirts sewn inside out
• T-shirt needs inverting
• Operators on incentive
• Injuries productivity!
• 5 hp reversed blower
• Foot pedal control
• Sucks in t-shirt
• Pull out inverted
• Doubled productivity
• Decreased injuries

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COAL MINING Continuous Longwall
36 seam
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MINE SIMULATIONS IN LAB
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APPLE HARVESTING
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TS_Dumping

• Hip belt
• Shoulder straps

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SUMMARY

• Focus on industry and CTDs
• Provides MS students with hands-on experiences
  and job opportunities
• Provides PhD students with research in
  instrumentation, analyses and modeling
• New focus validation with cadavers