Avoiding fatalities: while accidents can never be entirely avoided, metalcasters must take steps to ensure their employees don't pay the ultimate price.
Modern Casting › Vol. 98 Nbr. 10, October 2008
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Avoiding fatalities: while accidents can never be entirely avoided, metalcasters must take steps to ensure their employees don't pay the ultimate price.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) recent Accident, Injury & Fatality Summary for metalcasting facilities reads like a police blotter. It's just the facts. But the conclusions are often grim. "Employee was found with shoulders and head in a cleaning mill with the door shut on his back. Employee was pronounced dead at the site." "Three workers were seriously injured when the 165-ton rated electric arc furnace exploded. One employee died the following day." "The second shift foreman fell through a skylight while traversing the roof ...See the full content of this document
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