Articles Tagged with ''industrial health and safety''

SOLINGEN, German—Item Industrietechnik GmbH has become the first supplier of industrial workbenches to be awarded the “certified and recommended” seal of approval by the independent Campaign for Healthy Backs.

Since the start of the Great Recession in 2008, many Tier 1 suppliers have either closed or downsized.

RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA—Nearly five years after a water heater explosion killed two workers at a plastics manufacturing plant here, two supervisors pleaded no contest Friday to felony charges in the deaths.

VICTOR, NY—OSHA has fined optical equipment manufacturer Wordingham Machine Co. $131,600 for failing to correct safety hazards.

WASHINGTON—OSHA is reportedly planning a public database of workplace injury and illness incidents reported by manufacturers and other employees.

FREEMONT, CA—At least three workers at the Tesla Motors assembly plant here were hurt Wednesday when hot metal was ejected from a malfunctioning aluminum casting press.

NEWTOWN, OH—Three workers at an ammunition assembly plant here suffered minor burns and other injuries in an explosion Thursday morning.

DALLAS—The global market for presence-sensing sensors, emergency stop controls, interlocks, relays, and other machine safety products is expected to reach nearly $4.2 billion by 2018, growing at a annual rate of 9 percent.

CONWAY, AR—Electronics manufacturer Snap-on Equipment has gone more than five years without a lost-time accident at its assembly plant here.

WARREN, MI—A 61-year-old worker was found dead Saturday while working at Chrysler’s truck assembly plant here. The man, who is not being identified, was working on the line performing a weld-check when he was discovered at 10:30 a.m. slumped over.