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Water jet cutter injury.
High pressure water jet wounds may involve vascular or neurological injuries.
Do not put your hands in the tank while the jet is operating.
Wear safety glasses to keep abrasive particles out of your eyes.
Waterjet cutting is used to cut through extremely hard materials and is fully capable of removing a limb from an inattentive operator.
Then you would pick an abrasive jet and expect to have a very imprecise cut almost like oxy acetylene burning.
Prevention of water jetting injuries.
Bacterial or chemical inoculation can cause significant morbidity.
The term abrasive jet refers specifically to the use of a mixture of water and abrasive to cut hard materials such as metal or granite while the terms pure waterjet and water.
High pressure water jet injury to the neck and arm.
The jet was not a very rigid precise cutting tool and so early abrasive jets say in the 80s were used if you had absolutely no other possible way to cut the material.
The high pressures can cause injuries similar to gunshot wounds but have the added health hazard of involving contaminated water.
Prompt medical attention should be received after any waterjet injury even if there is no external damage.
When cutting underwater the noise level is much lower but depending on your shop environment you may still want to use ear protection.
High pressure water jet injuries present with several unique features.
More commonly exposure to the jet results in deep puncture wounds and internal bruising or bleeding.
High pressure hand injection injuries caused by dry cleaning solvents.
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What has actually happened is that contaminated water has been shot inside the body and can cause.
The water exits the nozzle at about the speed of sound and makes a lot of noise enough noise to damage your hearing.
Case reports review of the literature and treatment guidelines.
Use hearing protection when the jet is not submerged during cutting.
If the water jet cuts through a shoe or sleeve and punctures the skin it may only appear as a small bruise.
Jet cutting is one of the safer cutting technologies but you still need to take precautions to minimize the chances of or ill effects of an injury.
