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MSHA Alert: Blast Safety
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has released the investigation report on a March 27, 2013, fatality at a crushed stone operation. The incident involved a 61-year-old loader operator with 24 years of experience who was killed when broken ... Read More...
An Explosive Situation
By Therese Dunphy, Editor-in-Chief
tdunphy@randallreilly.com
In what can only be categorized as a mistake of monumental proportions, a former Kansas assistant attorney general deleted all the rules and regulations covering explosives permits from the state records. To remedy this error, State Fire ... Read More...
A Visit to Cemex’s Balcones Quarry
I drove down to the heart of Texas hill country in October to visit Balcones Quarry, a Cemex quarry, but it wasn't the first time I had been there. I made a brief visit to the quarry a year ago ... Read More...
Efficient Energy
TXI’s Mill Creek, Okla., plant targets energy savings through variable frequency drives on its motors.
It’s no secret that commodity prices in the aggregates markets are sensitive to ever fluctuating economic conditions. While producers may have little control of external market ... Read More...
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