MSHA Administrator Joe Main lauded the agency and operators for the reduced number of fatalities in 2015, while speaking at a January industry stakeholder meeting. There were 134 consecutive days with no fatalities in the metal/non-metal sector. This is the longest stretch in MSHA’s history and, for the first time ever, there were no MNM fatalities in the month of October.
In particular the MSHA was pleased with the period of safe operations from 4 August to 31 December 2015. It reported that the year closed with 17 fatalities in the MNM sector. Five of those were employees of aggregates companies.
Out of 54 fatalities, occurring since October 2013, 24% were caused by falls, and 24% by powered haulage. The job function most frequently involved in fatalities is a mechanic.
WCT2020 provides a unique online forum for cement industry professionals to hear first-hand from experts through a series of exclusive presentations from cement producers and industry experts.
World Cement Editor, David Bizley, sat down with Michael Tay, Advanced Analytics Product Manager at Rockwell Automation to discuss his recent article in World Cement.
Entitled ‘Smooth Sailing’, this article explains how machine learning can help save energy, reduce downtime and predict equipment failures, thus enabling the smooth running of cement plant operations.
The cement industry has recently recognised Roanoke Cement Company (RCC) with top honours for Outreach in the 2020 Portland Cement Association (PCA) Cement Industry Energy and Environment Awards.
