Source: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA has ordered Union Pacific Railroad to pay $51,000 in punitive damages and back pay to an employee who, despite federal whistleblower protection, was suspended for refusing to delete from his cell phone video footage of an air compressor safety inspection.
Read MoreSources: Percoa USA LLC, Minneapolis; CP staff
Armed with a recently issued patent, Percoa USA is eyeing a range of commercial and residential market applications for its precast pervious concrete system and stormwater filtration methods. “We have demonstrated the durability of [the product] as well as its effectiveness in capturing and filtering runoff,” and “are moving to license technology to companies ready to manufacture pervious slabs and pavers,” affirms President Brett Pomerleau.
Read MoreSources: Portland Cement Association, Washington, D.C.; CP staff
With guidance from 10 PCA member companies, ASTM International has released product category rules (PCR) for six grades of binder under Committee C01 on Cement—portland, portland-limestone, blended hydraulic, masonry, mortar, and plastic (stucco)—providing producers and their customers a tool central to emerging green building practice: environmental product declarations (EPD).
Read MoreSources: Portland Cement Association, Washington, D.C.; CP staff
Measuring year-to-date cement shipments through July, the most recent month for which data is available, PCA Chief Economist Ed Sullivan reiterates in his most recent economic forecast that the industry is on track to reach a previously projected 7.9 percent increase in 2014 powder consumption against 2013 figures.
Read MoreSources: Solomon Colors Inc., Springfield, Ill.; CP staff
Solomon Colors has acquired technology and assets associated with the Ultra Fiber 500 product line of concrete secondary reinforcement fibers. Announcing a deal with Georgia Pacific LLC, company president Richard Solomon noted that Ultra Fiber 500 offers “superb finishing quality, unsurpassed crack control, better hydration and bonding, a true invisible fiber for decorative concrete, and fully automated dispensing system capability.”
Read MoreSource: Dayton Superior Corp., Miamisburg, Ohio
In a deal with Tilt-Up Design Systems LLC, Dayton Superior has purchased Tilt-Werks, an integrated, web-based technology architects, structural engineers, contractors, and other professionals deploy for project design, including jobs requiring Building Information Modeling data.
Read MoreSource: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA has confirmed a three-year extension, to November 2017, of the deadline for crane operator certification requirements in the Cranes and Derricks in Construction final rule, published in 2010. The agency has also extended by the same period a rule holding employers responsible for ensuring crane operators are competent to run their equipment safely.
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Software allows weighing terminal users to integrate transaction data into PC databases. WeighSync DC can be configured for nearly any industrial process and allows users to collect data to create reports and meet compliance tracking and tracing requirements. Compatible with Windows 7 or 8, it collects weighing-transaction figures from multiple terminals in a Microsoft SQL Express database.
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A non-intrusive instrument for various material handling applications, Flow Detect 2000 prevents downtime caused by blockage, conveyors running empty, no material flow to-and-from a process, or loose slide gates that can cause production loss and equipment failure. The microwave-based instrument tracks flow conditions of powders and granules in gravity chutes, feeders, pipelines, conveyor belts, or bucket elevators.
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Adjustable racking system affords storage flexibility, the manufacture notes: Moveable pallets, as opposed to fixed shelves, can be continually adjusted or expanded to meet a facility’s evolving storage needs. Pallet racking provides 25,000 lb. capacity per storage selection and is available at a height of up to 16 feet for maximum vertical storage space.
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