An 84-year-old man presented with a high-pressure injection injury of the left thumb. The hand-held water gun involved generates less pressure than the grease and paint sprayers usually involved in these injuries. The patient was managed conservatively in the hospital with elevation, observation, and dressing changes. Surgical debridement was not required. This case points out a previously unre...

Among the possible sources of environmental contamination by plant protection products, the use of air blast sprayers in orchards and vineyards can be very critical. The evaluation of the vertical distribution pattern is a crucial test to achieve a good quality of spray application. The aim of the paper was to compare the performance of a vertical lamellate patternator versus a horizontal lamel...

The number, type, and size of retained asbestos fibers were measured by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in lung tissues of 10 workers who had died from lung cancer or mesothelioma. The levels were 190-3000 x 10(6) fibers/g of dry tissue in three crocidolite sprayers, 6-39 x 10(6) fibers/g of dry tissue in two asbestos product workers and 13-280 x 10(6) fibers/g of dry tissue in five insulato...

OBJECTIVES Unregulated use of pesticides continues in developing countries in the presence of illiteracy and limited safety training and practices. This paper describes training and safety practices when mixing and spraying pesticides, and acetylcholinesterase levels among women farmers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. METHODS A cross-sectional study conducted in women working in small-scale a...

As a result of studies the values technical characteristics self-propelled rod sprayers domestic and foreign models modifications, mass, power installed engine volume working fluid tank are analyzed. Their correlation dependence fields obtained. The theoretical empirical laws distribution series, mathematical expectation, standard deviation, coefficient variation, confidence interval average va...

Intensive potato production technology provides for improving the process of planting tubers with a planter simultaneous treatment protective and stimulating liquids. To this end, design device was developed, parameters pneumatic slot sprayers recommended treated working fluids were optimized.

An Ultra-Low Volume (ULV) sprayer was developed to decrease carrier volume required for pesticide applications in row and turfgrass cropping systems. The ULV sprayer can make spray applications at or below 19 L ha-1 , which is far lower than a conventional sprayer in row crop or turfgrass production systems. Field studies were Facility near Mead, NE to compare the ULV sprayer to a conventional ...