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Proper Lifting Support from Brass Knuckle®

July 18, 2025

Employers have a stake in promoting proper lifting, as the consequences of back injuries are costly.

Understanding Load Limits: How Hook Lifting Devices Protect Workers

Julianne Jordan

March 10, 2025

Machines that workers have used hundreds of times — or that have just been deployed — may suddenly fail, putting multiple staff in danger.

Workers spend more than half their day standing or walking in jobs

January 23, 2017

Workers spent 61.0 percent of the workday standing or walking in jobs surveyed in 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. The average maximum weight lifted or carried as required in all civilian (private industry and state and local government) jobs was about 36 pounds.

How one supermarket chain is preventing MSDs among its warehouse workers

OSHA is hoping that other companies follow suit

August 26, 2015

Before consumers get to choose products in the supermarket, workers in warehouses nationwide pack bulk quantities of merchandise onto wooden pallets and load them onto delivery trucks. The nature of this work puts the people who do it at risk for serious sprains, strains and other musculoskeletal injuries.

Ergodyne announces refresh of original back support line

Ergonomics are in our name and in everything we do

February 22, 2013

Ergodyne announced today a refresh of the products that started it all, the ProFlex® Back Support Series. Back supports are as essential for workers today as they were thirty years ago when the first workplace back support was invented and patented by Ergodyne.

Wildeck’s new 4XLift debuts at ProMat Show

High load capacity 4-Post VRC (Vertical Reciprocating Conveyor) now includes patented AutoSenz Safety Control System

February 15, 2013

Visitors to Booth 1252 were treated to the premier showing of Wildeck’s new 4-post VRC design that includes, as standard, the company’s full-featured AutoSenz® D-Series Overload Detection System (U.S. Patent No. 7,408,317).