An enhanced safety welding cart patented by the U.S. Air Force Vandenberg Air Force Base Training Device Design and Engineering Center (TDDEC) to increase the safety and well being of airmen is now available commercially through Spika Welding & Manufacturing Inc. http://www.spikawelding.com/ , Moccasin, Montana.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 15,500 welding accidents occurred nationwide from 1994 to 2001. Many of these accidents involved oxy-acetylene gas welding and cutting processes, which pose several safety hazards to technicians.