Cement Americas

SPR 2013

Cement Americas provides comprehensive coverage of the North and South American cement markets from raw material extraction to delivery and tranportation to end user.

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SAFETY INNOVATIONS GENERAL FACILITY ASH GROVE CEMENT CO., LEAMINGTON PLANT LONG BAR AND CHAIN HOOK TOOL The time-consuming process of changing bags in the plant's main baghouse motivated employees at the Ash Grove Cement Co.'s Leamington, Utah, plant to design a quicker method to change bags. The revised process also helps to protect employees from experiencing repetitive motion injuries. Employees designed a long bar that extends the length of one row of bags. Chains and hooks are strategically placed along the bar to match the location of each bag in one row, and then the chains and hooks are attached to the bags. An overhead crane does the heavy lifting by removing all the bags in an entire row in one lift from their compartments in the baghouse. GENERAL FACILITY ASH GROVE CEMENT CO., LEAMINGTON PLANT PIVOTING THIRD WHEEL Using railcar door closers is cumbersome for employees and leads to injuries, often to the hand or fingers or the back. The doorcloser device is difficult to move around because there are only two rear wheels, and there is sometimes close clearance in the areas where the closers are used. Employees at the Leamington, Utah, plant designed a pivoting third wheel. The device is welded onto the bottom of the door closer, and the third wheel pivots, which allows the closer to be easily moved forward, backward, or turned to direct the closer fitting into the railcar door. 36 CEMENT AMERICAS • Spring 2013 • www.cementamericas.com

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