Identifier: safefoundrypract01trav (find matches)
Title: Safe foundry practice
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Travelers Insurance Companies
Subjects: Founding Accidents
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., The Travelers insurance company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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carelessness on the part of cranemen whentransporting or depositing them. Sulky and buggy ladles are used only to a limitedextent, but they cause many accidents. In somefoundries steel plates are laid to serve as runways forbuggy ladles, and plates are often placed between the 8 THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY rails of narrow-gage industrial railway tracks also.Molten metal is sure to splash when spilled on clean,smooth plates of this kind, and it also forms into shotwhich roll under the feet and cause the men to fall orto spill more metal. The danger from splashing mightbe minimized by sprinkling sand on the floor, but thesand would hinder the free movement of the wheels,and greater effort would be required to move thebuggies. This would tend to make si)ills more frequent,even though in any individual case the sand mightreduce the likelihood of injury from splashing, after themetal had been spilled. Floors of concrete and brickhave been tried in other foundries, with the result that
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Fig. 2. A Buggy or Sulky Ladle. (Observe the inclosure for the gears, and the shield to prevent the molten metal from splashingon the operator when pouring and when pusliing the ladle along the track.) LADLES 9 the number of burns from spills has been materiallyreduced. An excellent floor may also be constructedof metal plates with checkered surfaces,—the elevationson these plates providing a surface that is sufBcientlysmooth for the wheels, w^hile the depressions (whichare filled with sand) tend to check the splashing.Overhead trolley systems are used in some foundriesfor transporting ladles, and in this w^ay the spills andsplashes that are due to poor floor conditions areeliminated. It is necessary to maintain a clear path for buggiesthat are being moved about, because metal is likely tobe spilled from them if even a very small obstruction isencountered. Moreover, the buggies or trucks shouldbe inspected frequently, paying particular attention tothe wheels and bearings to make sur

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