vibration white finger , VWF (Abkürzung)
hand-arm vibration syndrome , HAVS (Abkürzung)
dead finger

However, during adolescence there is an increased risk of non-occupational Raynaud's Disease, which can give similar symptoms to vibration white finger.

Like other hand-held machinery, the operation of chainsaws can cause vibration white finger, tinnitus or industrial deafness.

Hand-arm vibration syndrome includes vibration white finger and damage to sensory nerves, muscles and joints.

Miners and their relatives approached Beresfords to claim compensation for chronic lung problems and vibration white finger, a hand condition caused by working with vibrating machinery.

Why is it that, in Greenock and Port Glasgow, genuine claims for disability benefit in respect of vibration white finger are almost always forced to an appeal?

These schemes exist to compensate UK coal miners and their families in relation to respiratory disease and Vibration white finger (VWF).

Use of the term "vibration white finger" has generally been superseded in professional usage by broader concept of HAVS, although it is still used by the general public.

Vibration white finger (VWF), also known as hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) or dead finger,) is a secondary form of Raynaud's syndrome, an industrial injury triggered by continuous use of vibrating hand-held machinery.

Harry Samuel, a voluntary worker for the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation, who for the past 24 years has provided advice and support to former miners and their families by dealing with their chronic bronchitis and emphysema, and vibration white finger claims.

Will those applications, which total 4,500 from my constituency alone, be assessed fairly and reasonably by the DSS in Strathclyde and will he assure me that there will not be the delays that characterised the applications for disability benefit vis-a-vis vibration white finger and beat knee claims?

While EMMA allows the operator levels of control equivalent to that of manual sanding, it largely eliminates the vibrations and high grip forces that contribute to hand arm vibration syndrome (HAVS), also known as vibration white finger, thus reducing the potential for traumatic injuries and their associated medical costs.

A group of doctors in England is warning that all three, under certain conditions, may cause a painful and even disabling condition known as hand-arm vibration syndrome.

There is no evidence that young people face a greater risk of developing hand-arm vibration syndrome from exposure to hand-arm vibration than other employees.

Hand-arm vibration syndrome includes vibration white finger and damage to sensory nerves, muscles and joints.

Employees who regularly use these as part of their job could suffer permanent injury known as hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS).

Excessive vibration over long periods can cause the user to develop hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS), or white finger.

Vibration white finger (VWF), also known as hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) or dead finger,) is a secondary form of Raynaud's syndrome, an industrial injury triggered by continuous use of vibrating hand-held machinery.

Another issue with vibration for the bike is the possibility of failure due to material fatigue Effects of vibration on riders include discomfort, loss of efficiency, Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome, a secondary form Raynaud's disease, and whole body vibration.

But once her disease was arrested again, she learned how to type without using those dead fingers.

"Either you give it to her or she takes it from your cold dead fingers."

He took the keys from the woman's dead fingers, slipped on the jacket, then went back inside the security building.

We also believe that his dead finger locked over the trigger grip.

On his dead finger was the ring that had been taken from the young metallurgist.

Farther down the column, dead fingers dug into the sandy earth.

I tried to shift the ring again, but the dead fingers were stiff and the ruby would not move.

Then he had chewed off the dead fingers before the gangrene could spread.

He propped himself up on quivering arms, and wiped the snow away with dead fingers.

In a moment the dead fingers loosed their grip.

"You will have to pry her from my dead fingers," Pam always retorted.

His pistol clattered to the floor from his dead fingers.

Stooping, he plucked the parchment from the dead fingers and opened it.

He placed the fake stone in the dead fingers of Peter Randolph.

It glimmered whitely and was hooked like a dead finger.

They are the envious past clutching with its cold dead fingers the throat of the living present."

It fell against her, its icy, dead fingers wrapping around her neck.

Nate grabbed up a pistol from dead fingers and ran headlong into the main camp.

The dead fingers, opening jerkily, allowed the bottle to fall toward the hard polished boards.

Her features crumbled into ash as her dead fingers touched them.

Why pry from his dead fingers the symbol of our thoughtless sin?

You'll give me an E-ticket when you pry my cold dead fingers from around my paper one.

And it will have to be pried from my cold, dead fingers before I give it up."

The other end was gripped by the dead fingers of Leland Payne!

He'll be damned clever now if he gets his dead fingers on a dime of that missing gold!"