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<blockquote data-quote="Tanis143" data-source="post: 3256489" data-attributes="member: 43724"><p>I worked at Southwestern Wire on Tecumseh and I-35 and it was an OSHA nightmare. Their engineers couldn't design a wet noodle with a pot of boiling water in front of them, failed OSHA inspection twice while I worked there (from July to the end of Nov in '99), had just two guys (me and my sup) who did maintenance for the whole drawing and galvanizing department (4 drawing lines and two galvanizing lines with up to 16 wires on one and 32 on the other). I and one other guy got moderate to severe zinc burns from poor safety requirements, saw several other dangerous situations, had no working exhaust fans for the galvanizing lines (not only vaporized zinc but sulfuric acid fumes and gas exhaust from the blast furnace). I spent two weeks converting chain driven fans to belt driven because one of the engineers thought chain was the way to go until it snapped the fan shafts from hard startups. The last OSHA inspection I was there only about 1/4 of the things were fixed but the inspector gave them a pass. I think some money was slipped from one hand to another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tanis143, post: 3256489, member: 43724"] I worked at Southwestern Wire on Tecumseh and I-35 and it was an OSHA nightmare. Their engineers couldn't design a wet noodle with a pot of boiling water in front of them, failed OSHA inspection twice while I worked there (from July to the end of Nov in '99), had just two guys (me and my sup) who did maintenance for the whole drawing and galvanizing department (4 drawing lines and two galvanizing lines with up to 16 wires on one and 32 on the other). I and one other guy got moderate to severe zinc burns from poor safety requirements, saw several other dangerous situations, had no working exhaust fans for the galvanizing lines (not only vaporized zinc but sulfuric acid fumes and gas exhaust from the blast furnace). I spent two weeks converting chain driven fans to belt driven because one of the engineers thought chain was the way to go until it snapped the fan shafts from hard startups. The last OSHA inspection I was there only about 1/4 of the things were fixed but the inspector gave them a pass. I think some money was slipped from one hand to another. [/QUOTE]
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