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Prevent Paint Injection Injuries

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3 Safety Tips When Using an Airless Sprayer

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Airless sprayers operate at very high pressures, ranging from 400 PSI to 3,000 PSI. This pressure atomizes paint into a fine fan pattern. If any part of your body, especially your hand, comes in front of the spray tip while the trigger is accidentally or purposely pulled, paint can be injected under your skin. This is a severe traumatic injury that requires immediate medical attention at an emergency room or hospital. Do not attempt to treat it yourself, as improper treatment can lead to limb loss or even death. Always carry an 'injection card' (P/N 0154926, Note to Physician) which provides instructions for emergency personnel on how to treat such injuries, as they are not common. To prevent injection, always keep your hands and body away from the spray tip. When adjusting the tip guard or clearing a clog, always activate the safety on the spray gun to prevent accidental discharge. Do not place your hand over the tip or in front of the spray pattern.

Goal: Understand the severe risk of paint injection from an airless sprayer, which operates at high pressure (400-3000 PSI), and learn how to prevent such injuries and what to do if one occurs.

Tools and materials

  • Airless Sprayer Gun
  • Injection Card (P/N 0154926)

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The first safety tip I want to talk about today is paint injections. Now an airless sprayer, you can be running anywhere from 400 psi all the way up to 3,000 psi. And do that large pressure coming out of the gun, the tip of the gun, the spray tip, atomizes the paint. It sends it out in a fan pattern. And it sends it out in high pressure. If you actually get your hand, any part of your body in front of this gun right here, and the trigger accidentally pulls, you can possibly get injected with paint. And injected with paint is the paint actually getting shot by the gun underneath your skin. That is a very serious injury. If you ever get injected with paint, do not. Whatever you do, do not go home and try to treat yourself. You need to immediately go to an emergency room, a hospital, and be treated. Because if you're not treated and treated properly, you could lose a lamb. You could even lose your life from it. If you're ever using an airless sprayer, you should always have access to an injection card. I keep one in my wallet. Whenever I'm working in sprain and an injection card is an instruction little pamphlet that walks through the emergency personnel how to treat you if you are injected with paint. Because it's not a very common injury. You could end up going to the ER, and they may not know how to treat you right away. And you want to be treated immediately as soon as you get there with no hesitation. You don't want them to have to be looking it up online, et cetera. So carry an injection card. The way you would actually get injected with paint is somehow your hand is somehow or a part of your body is somehow in front of this guard right here, in front of the tip, when the trigger is actually pulled accidentally or purposely. You want to keep your hands. You want to keep your body out of this area right here. Anytime you're ever messing with this tip guard, if I'm taking the guard off, I want to keep my hands not on top right here to unscrew it. I want to keep it to the side. Anytime I'm adjusting the tip, I want to keep it to the side and not in front. And anytime you're messing with that, another tip when it comes to injections, so you don't get injected, there is a safety on all airless spray guns. Make sure that thing is functioning properly. Anytime I want to mess with this guard, anything up here, I want to put that gun in safe. Now I can't accidentally or purposely pull that trigger. When I'm ready to go, I'll take it off safe and start spraying.…

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