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Items Tagged with 'manufacturing industry'

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Industrial dust collection

How to optimize employee safety when operating industrial dust collectors

Stephanie Schales
July 14, 2022

Operators of facilities that generate dust during manufacturing processes often rely on high-efficiency cartridge-style dust collectors. Here are key actions to keep employees safe when operating an industrial dust collector.


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Frequently-asked questions about controlling dangerous dusts

Brian Richardson
September 28, 2020

Dust particles become airborne during indoor metalworking processes like welding and plasma cutting. They also become airborne during the manufacturing and processing of food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and other dry products.


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Returning to work for at-risk employees

A step up: Returning to work for at-risk employees

Dr. Kevan Orvitz
July 20, 2020
For our returning US workforce, recognizing employees’ personal comfort on the job has never been more significant — especially for at-risk employees.
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Steel curtains block flying debris from hydraulic presses

Steel curtains block flying debris from hydraulic presses

Striking out
Carrie Halle
May 5, 2020
The potential for catastrophic injury when operating a hydraulic press is great. Its operation requires a worker to feed, position and remove stock in the area under the powerful ram or near the bending point, exposing him or herself directly to danger.
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Wisc. manufacturing workers exposed to lead, copper dust

January 22, 2020
OSHA has cited Milwaukee Valve Company Inc. – based in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin – for exposing employees to lead and copper dust at rates higher than the permissible exposure levels. The agency has proposed $171,628 in penalties to the industrial valve manufacturing company.
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Tesla

Report finds worker injuries are “routine” at Tesla’s Nevada plant

November 14, 2019
A new report from USA Today on Tesla’s “gargantuan” four-year-old battery factory in Nevada finds that worker injuries at the Gigafactory occur “on a routine basis: at least three a month.” OSHA inspectors were on-site more than 90 times in the facility’s first three years of operation.
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Strategies to train & outfit inexperienced workers

Strategies to train & outfit inexperienced workers

Coping with the labor shortage
Sean Sweeney
October 1, 2019

At the start of September, the number of open jobs exceeded the number of active jobseekers for the 17th consecutive month—a record for the United States economy.


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Company cited for combustible dust blast that injured workers

September 12, 2019
Gilster-Mary Lee Corp. of Steeleville, Illinois has been cited by OSHA for six safety violations including three willful after two maintenance employees conducting welding operations sustained serious burns to their upper bodies as the result of an explosion within a dust collector at the company's pasta manufacturing plant on Oct. 6, 2011. The incident occurred as the two employees were repairing a hole in the side of a metal trough.
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OSHA enforcement

Cookie dough maker develops LOTO plan, fails to follow it

September 5, 2019
It was déjà vu all over again for Choice Products USA LLC. Back in 2016, the Eau Claire, Wisconsin cookie dough manufacturer had been cited by OSHA for a number of machine hazards that potentially exposed workers to hazardous energy. During their latest inspection, OSHA found similar machine hazards, along with a host of others.
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An exploration of automation in the workplace: Safety considerations for future implementation

Gregory Miller
June 14, 2019
Automated equipment has transformed industrial production over the last 30 years and has been instrumental in accelerating production and efficiency in the sectors of manufacturing, construction and machining. This dynamic shift from human workers has resulted in the relegation of repetitive and labor-intensive tasks to machines while simultaneously freeing up humans to conduct higher level tasks. As industries begin to rely more heavily on automation, the general viewpoint is that increased automation is beneficial from both a productivity and safety perspective.
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