Occupational Hazards At Blast Furnace Plants And Accident Prevention

Author : Frederick H. Willcox
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331522303
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Occupational Hazards at Blast-Furnace Plants and Accident Prevention written by Frederick H. Willcox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Occupational Hazards at Blast-Furnace Plants and Accident Prevention: Based on Records of Accidents at Blast Furnaces in Pennsylvania in 1915 As the disadvantages of hard driving became evident to the men in Charge of plants that were using higher proportions of Mesabi ores each year, and as the greater regularity and the economy in fuel and in lining from easier driving became apparent, there was a swing at many plants to extremely moderate driving slow driving. This tendency was accelerated by the let-up in production in 1907, by the great increase in productive capacity of the country, and by the larger output of basic iron, it being more difficult to produce good basic iron than good iron of higher silicon content in a furnace work ing irregularly, because of slips, Contemporaneously, there came the possibility of using a hotter blast, because of the smaller volume of blast with slow driving and the use of cleaned gas for the stoves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.