The C-100 mounts at a convenient location in the plant or loadout areas. Employees walk or drive up to retrieve silo level data from the console, whose rugged housing allows indoor or outdoor mounting. The local display eliminates the need to visit a control room or PLC and complements the company’s BinView or Binventory inventory management software.
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Silo Engulfment Fatality Draws Osha-Proposed $55K Penalty
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration Cincinnati Area Office cited Monroe, Ohio-based Central Ready Mix, LLC for 10 serious safety violations after an employee at the company’s Middletown, Ohio, plant was fatally engulfed while breaking fly ash clumps clogging a silo. After attempts to dislodge clumps with a metal bar and air hose failed, OSHA officials note, the employee climbed into the silo, without a harness and lanyard, and devoted several hours to clearing the vessel before being engulfed.
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