A contractor was found dead of suffocation and a broken neck behind the guard of a conveyor’s tail pulley. As in the incident discussed last month (“Analyzing conveyor designs for safety,” Sept. 23, ...

The use of belt conveyors can change the way materials pass through your production line and make the processes quicker and more efficient. But when they are not used carefully, these powerful systems ...

Conveyors are among the most dynamic and potentially dangerous areas of equipment at a coal power plant. Even though their safety and performance are critical to the operation’s success, the impact of ...

Until recently, conveyor system design philosophies have been comfortably lodged in the style of the 1950s. Armed with information on the required capacity, space available and budget constraints, the ...

Conveyors are one of the earliest forms of automation and possibly one of the best productivity enhancing tools available in the recycling industry today. These machines have dramatically increased ...

Vacuum conveyors won’t solve every safety hazard, but they do eliminate a great number of hazards inherent during manual transfer of powders and bulk solids, such as work-related musculoskeletal ...

Mining-technology.com reports: Martin Engineering and Stahura Conveyor Products (SCP) co-hosted a seminar on conveyor safety to raise safety education and standardize maintenance practices to reduce ...

[Neponset, IL (USA)] A global leader in conveyor safety technology offers a suite of products and services to protect workers from fast-moving rollers and belts, helping bulk material handlers ...

A worker was killed instantly when a conveyor belt grabbed him and pushed him into a conveyor support. Multiple safety lapses, many related to a failure to view the conveyor as machine with potential ...