A worker, who had recently been given the responsibility of safety inspector for the gravel pit where he worked, was killed when he was crushed in a piece of moving machinery.
He was trying to place his hand on a bearing to see if it had overheated. He had climbed over the edge of the stone conveyor and somehow was caught between the three-foot wide conveyor belt and a large pulley. He was killed instantly.
Investigation of the fatal incident showed that workers at the site were unfamiliar with lock and tag procedures, in which a machine is isolated from a power […]
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