A worker, who had recently been given the responsibility of safety inspector for the gravel pit where he worked, was killed when he was crushed in a piece of moving machinery. He was trying to place his hand on a bearing to see if it had overheated. He had climbed over the edge of the stone conveyor and somehow was caught between the three-foot wide conveyor belt and a large pulley. He was killed instantly. Investigation of the fatal incident showed that workers at the site were unfamiliar with lock and tag procedures, in which a machine is isolated from a power […]