Hands are one of the most complex parts of your body. Tendon, bones, tissues and nerves work together to allow various movements. The hand consists of 27 bones (including eight bones in the wrist). When the other associated parts (nerves, arteries, veins, muscles, tendons, ligaments, joint cartilage, and fingernails) are considered, there is potential for a variety of injuries. Hand injuries that cause damage to one or all of those inter-meshing parts can make it difficult to do even the most simple tasks. Hand injuries are often caused by misuse of tools, improper glove use, carelessness, lack of awareness or distraction.
A workplace hand safety study conducted in late 2015 in partnership with the American Society of Safety Engineers covered hand safety topics ranging from how often injuries occur in the workplace to what’s causing those injuries. More than a quarter of the 400 safety professionals who participated in the study, 27 percent, reported having more than 30 work-related injuries occur in their company in the past 12 months. Twenty-eight percent reported having between 10 and 30 injuries in that same time period.