07/11/2025
Why do you need Remote Grease Points, Divider Valves or Automatic Greasing Systems? Well besides cost and time saving benefits, this technology minimises and in most cases eliminates the risk of injury or death while performing lubrication maintenance.
While exact numbers for maintenance are not broken out in the latest summary reports, historical data highlights specific mechanisms that are relevant to maintenance activities, often occurring in off public road environments (e.g., workshops, depots)
Involving trucks, the following mechanisms were recorded for incidents not on public roads (including maintenance):
* Being hit by moving objects: 50 fatalities.
* Being trapped between stationary and moving objects: 42 fatalities.
* Being hit by falling objects: 31 fatalities.
* Falls from a height: 26 fatalities.
This data indicate that maintenance-related incidents are a significant, albeit challenging to isolate, component of overall heavy vehicle workplace fatalities. Data period 2003-2012