SAFETY
INNOVATIONS
GENERAL FACILITY
GCC RIO GRANDE, TIJERAS PLANT
MILL WORK MOTOR PLATFORM
Working on "clean and inspect" preventive maintenance of the motor coil
windings and shaft babit bearings in the
ball mill motors led employees at the
GCC Rio Grande plant in Tijeras, N.M.,
to create a work platform that would
prohibit employees from falling. The
maintenance work requires employees
to work outside the regular guard rail
when servicing the outboard side of the
motor. Employees removed the fall hazard altogether by installing a removable
work platform just outside the guard.
The PVC non-skid grating is light
enough to allow sections to be lifted out
and reinstalled as needed when PM
work is scheduled.
GENERAL FACILITY
NATIONAL CEMENT CO., RAGLAND PLANT
TAKE-UP REEL CABLE GUIDE
Employees at the National Cement Co.'s
plant in Ragland, Ala., designed a cable
guide device that prevents cable damage
when gathering cable onto a reel. Almost
every time the 440 VAC power supply cable
for a moving, rail-mounted tripper car had
to be taken up, the cable was damaged.
Employees constructed a sturdy, narrow Ushaped guide device and attached it to a
gear motor, then installed the cable guide
on the tripper car cable reel.
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