A partnership of AGC of California and HILTI North America held two comprehensive statewide seminars June 7 and 8 that provided nearly 150 construction industry professionals and 90 companies with ...

Given the silica content of concrete and mortar, silicosis is an enduring scourge of concrete and masonry construction. The damaging effects of ongoing exposure to airborne silica were familiar even ...

Underground hard-rock mines use a wide variety of extraction methods and they have many common dust sources and dust control needs. Ore passes, blasting, drilling, conveying, transferring, crushing, ...

In an environment where odor and dust issues carry increasing operational and reputational risk, custom-built strategies that ...

Dust collection systems capture fugitive coal dust that would otherwise escape from the perimeter of equipment areas. Collected fugitive dust is fuel that should be delivered to the furnace and burned ...

In 2003, an industry came together to find a way to control workers’ exposure to respirable crystalline silica during asphalt pavement milling in highway construction. Approximately 367,000 U.S.

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A core product commonly supplied by manufacturers in this field is the Industrial Dust Collector. This equipment forms the ...

The dust explosion pentagon is a well-known model for understanding the factors that contribute to dust fire, flash fire, and explosion incidents. Among its elements, the control of ignition sources – ...

Dust collection systems capture fugitive coal dust that would otherwise escape from the perimeter of equipment areas. Collected fugitive dust is fuel that should be delivered to the furnace and burned ...