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100 1 _aTravelers Insurance Companies
245 1 0 _aSafe foundry practice
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-16
508 _aCharlene Taylor, Ed Foster and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"Safe foundry practice" by Travelers Insurance Companies is an industrial safety manual written in the early 20th century. It focuses on preventing accidents and improving efficiency in (primarily iron) foundries through proper personal protective equipment, machine guarding, safe molten-metal handling, disciplined crane and hoisting practices, and good housekeeping and illumination. The opening of the manual begins with promotional matter for the insurer, then a preface framing the foundry as a complex mechanical-and-chemical workplace where teamwork, education, and a formal safety organization are essential. It notes that most injuries are burns and immediately prescribes practical protections—durable clothing, proper shoes and leggings, eye protection, gloves, and aprons—before detailing safe design, inspection, and handling of ladles, flasks, molds, and crucibles (including storage, drying, annealing, and correct use of tongs). It then outlines safe cupola tapping and charging, comprehensive safeguards and procedures for traveling cranes and hoisting gear (chains, hooks, and slings), guarding and dust control for tumbling barrels, mixers, sifters, molding machines, and grinders, and careful use of compressed air and sand-blasting enclosures. The section closes by stressing adequate lighting, ventilation, orderliness, and a well-organized foundry yard to reduce congestion and common hazards. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHartford: The Travelers Insurance Company, 1920
653 _aFounding -- Safety measures
653 _aFoundries -- Safety measures
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/safefoundrypract01trav/page/n5/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77246
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