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Safety Innovations Awards
Quarry | Milling/Grinding | Pyroprocessing
| Distribution | General Facility
General Facility
GCC
of America, Inc./Rio Grande Portland Cement
Tijeras, New Mexico
This operation devised a safer way
to inspect bucket elevators using a temporary,
portable, variable-speed drive with electrical
connections that allows quick, safe, and repeatable
activity. By using the new device, inspection
personnel can slow the drive speed to control
unwanted lateral chain movement, reduce stresses
on equipment from starting and stopping, eliminate
missed chain sections by over-run from jogging,
and reduce unwanted dust in the area. The inspection
speed control is placed where the operator is
in full view of the chain and buckets, and the
ability to lockout the equipment power for repairs
remains intact. Seven days were required to complete
the connections on nine elevators for the portable
variable speed drive to the local lockout switches
that are normally used during inspections.
Ash
Grove Cement Company
Durkee, Oregon
This facility designed a device to
reduce strain on employees’ backs and shoulders
while using the hi-vacuum truck hose. The device
attaches to the end of the heavy hi-vac hose.
It has wheels and a handle that allow easy movement
and access underneath low areas. The handle is
wrapped with a rubber-type tape to reduce any
static shock.
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GCC of America, Inc. / Rio Grande
Portland Cement
Tijeras, New Mexico
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