Articles Tagged with ''industrial health and safety''

KEARNEY, NE—Eaton Corp. could be fined $7,000 after an employee suffered acute kidney failure because of excessive heat in July while working inside the company’s auto parts assembly plant here.

The mid-1970s were a time of product expansion for the STIHL Group, which, until then, had focused solely on making chain saws.

ASHE COUNTY, NC—Three people were injured Tuesday after an explosion in the paint shop of an ambulance assembly plant here.

More market share is always the goal of every automaker, whether it’s based in the United States, Europe or Asia.

WEST POINT, GA—A worker at Kia Motors’ assembly plant here was killed Oct. 7 after heavy materials fell on him in the stamping department.

Manually assembling small parts isn’t that difficult. Inserting a screw into a hole or a wire into a connector is simply a matter of hand-eye coordination. Assembling larger parts, like, say, the multiton fuselage sections of a jetliner, is whole other matter.

GREENSBURG, IN—A bomb threat scrawled on a bathroom wall at an auto parts assembly plant here drew the attention of police and fire crews Friday afternoon.

Assemblers in many different industries depend on all sorts of pneumatic, DC electric and battery powered tools for a wide variety of fastening applications. Unfortunately, the devices are also the source of countless ergonomic headaches for manufacturing engineers.

FLINT, MI—GM’s truck assembly plant here shut down March 18 after an employee committed suicide there earlier.

NORTH STRABANE, PA—A worker’s right arm was severed in an industrial accident at a manufacturing plant here Tuesday morning. The man was adjusting drill bits on a machine at Lincoln Hydraulics when his arm became stuck in a spindle and it was severed at the elbow.