Steel Industry Health and Safety News

AK Steel's Coshocton Works Recognized For Outstanding Safety ...
Mon, 20 May 2013 18:09:00 +0100
AK Tube LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AK Steel, employs about 300 men and women in plants in Walbridge, Ohio and Columbus, Indiana. AK Tube produces carbon and stainless electric resistance welded (ERW) tubular steel products for truck, ...


AK Steel's Coshocton Works Recognized For Outstanding Safety Performance
Mon, 20 May 2013 16:15:00 +0100
WEST CHESTER, Ohio, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --AK Steel's (NYSE: AKS) Coshocton (Ohio) Works has been recognized for outstanding safety performance by the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Division ...


Steel industry standards may be implemented - Architecture and Design
Mon, 20 May 2013 07:03:59 +0100
Timaru Herald - Concerns over the quality of imported steel products have prompted the Australian steel industry, in partnership with New Zealand, to develop a plan inspired by the European Union's structural steel standards laws. Manufacturers of 'safety critical ...


China colliery accident toll rises to 28
Sun, 12 May 2013 08:30:00 +0100
The toll in a colliery accident in southwest China's Sichuan province Saturday rose to 28 after an injured miner died, authorities said Sunday. A total of 108 miners were working underground when a gas explosion took place around 2 p.m. in Taozigou coal mine in the city of Luzhou, sources with the provincial work safety bureau said. By late Saturday night, rescuers had saved 81 miners, while 27 ...


12 dead 2 injured in SW China colliery blast
Sat, 11 May 2013 08:04:00 +0100
Twelve miners were killed and two others injured in a colliery gas explosion on Friday evening in Southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said on Saturday. The accident happened in the Dashan coal mine in Pingba County at around 7 p.m., with 30 people in the mine, according to the Guizhou Provincial Administration of Work Safety. Sixteen miners were lifted from the pit but ...


Igcar: Hydrogen Sensor For Greater Safety - The Hindu
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:56:00 +0100
But all that separates sodium and steam is a thin (4-5 mm) ferretic steel tube through which steam flows. There is a possibility, even if remote, of tube failure. Steam, which is at a higher pressure than sodium, tends to leak into the coolant when the ...


Safety dispute slows production at Ind. steel mill - Wish TV 8 - ...
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:13:00 +0100
BURNS HARBOR, Ind. (AP) - A safety dispute involving workers at a northwestern Indiana steel mill has slowed its steel production because some union workers refuse to work under what they call unsafe conditions. The Times of Munster reports the dispute ...


Corsign: Product Catalogue
Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:28:00 +0100
Corsign can provide a wide range of road signs and traffic products, as well as work zone safety signs for the mining and construction industries.


Lack of affordable housing forces India's poor into death traps
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:08:38 +0100
By Aditi Shah MUMBAI (Reuters) - Aslamkhan Bhikankha sold his wife's jewellery and used all his savings to buy a flat in a Mumbai suburb which he now fears will soon be razed, leaving his family homeless. The flat is in one of numerous illegal buildings in Mumbra that house poor migrant workers and face demolition by authorities over safety concerns after the collapse last week of a 7-storey ...


U.S. Steel Says Industry Will Pitch Safety to Consumers
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:20:29 +0100
U.S. Steel Corp. (X) , the countrys largest producer by volume, said the steel industry will emphasize safety to consumers as it tries to fend off use of alternative materials in the automotive industry.


28 dead 13 injured in NE China colliery gas blast
Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:09:00 GMT
CHANGCHUN -- Twenty-eight people were confirmed dead and 13 others injured in a coal-mine gas blast late Friday in northeast China's Jilin Province, authorities said Saturday. Forty-one workers were trapped after the accident happened around 10:40 p.m. at Babao Coal Mine in Jiangyuan District in the city of Baishan, said a spokesman with the provincial work safety and supervision bureau. ...


AK Steel 's Zanesville Works Honored
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:38:27 GMT
AK Steel Holding Corporation's Zanesville (Ohio) Works has received "100% Award for Safety" from the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Division of Safety and Hygiene.


Iron and steel sector safety worries Labour Department - Independent ...
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 07:48:00 GMT
Immediate health and safety intervention was needed in the iron and steel industries, the Labour Department said yesterday. Incidences of injuries and fatalities were becoming a nightmare for the Compensation Fund, said Jacob Malatse, the director of ...


Steel manufacturer fined after two employees injured - Health and ...
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:44:00 GMT
A Dudley steel tube manufacturer has been fined after two employees, including an apprentice just three weeks into a new job, were injured in separate incidents within the same month. In the first incident at Marcegaglia (UK) Limited in Netherton on 10 ...


18 punished in China over coal mine accidents
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 04:30:00 GMT
A total of 18 government officials in southwest China's Guizhou province have been punished over three coal mine accidents that killed nearly 60 people, officials said. The officials work in two counties under Liupanshui city, Xinhua reported. The director of the work safety department and the heads of two counties were given administrative disciplinary sanctions, while other officials were ...