A contractor was found dead of suffocation and a broken neck behind the guard of a conveyor’s tail pulley. As in the incident discussed last month (“Analyzing conveyor designs for safety,” Sept. 23, ...

During the first couple weeks of social distancing, I didn’t think being stuck indoors was that big a deal. There are like eight million streaming options and we’re always complaining about not having ...

The death of a worker who suffocated when both his hands were caught in a conveyor’s tail pulley was one of the six to 10 conveyor accidents I investigate yearly. Although conveyors have long been ...