Masonry Magazine January 1977 Page.32
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Ice Cream Truck Helps in Heating Mortar Mix
Mason contractor Richard O'Connel (right), owner of O'Connel Masonry Co., Rochester, Minn., has come up with a clever way to solve some of his occupational problems by using an old ice cream truck. He places a 6" pipe pipe with a torch at one end of the truck a few inches off the floor. Along with the existing insulating capabilities of the truck, his modifications have made it possible to warm 10 yards of sand, 2.000 pounds of mortar, 300 gallons of water, and two pallets of brick during the winter at a cost of about $1 per day. Before making his changes, O'Connel says he was paying up to $20 a day to heat only four yards of sand, using the conventional torch and culvert system.
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OSHA Implements New Inspection Priorities
The Labor Department's Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has issued detailed instructions to field offices on allocating resources for inspecting the nation's workplaces for safety and health hazards.
Under broad plans announced earlier this year, Assistant Secretary of Labor Eula Bingham said the agency would redirect its inspection efforts to workplaces with the most serious safety and health hazards.
Dr. Bingham said that OSHA "would no longer concentrate on nit-picking violations of safety and health rules" and would concentrate on "reducing the ghastly toll of work-related deaths, injuries and illnesses." The new instruction will apply during fiscal 1978, which will be a test year for the new program.
Trident Sub Base Brings Masonry Boom to N.W.
The Masonry Institute of Washington reports that the Trident Submarine Base at Bangor is bringing a construction boom to Kitsap County in the northwest region of the United States. All construction trades including masonry are benefiting from the Navy project which will bring 5.000 more Navy and civilian workers to the Bangor area.
More than $600 million has been allocated for work on the Trident Base. So far, approximately $200 million worth of construction contracts have been let, including $2.5 million in masonry work.
Two of the latest masonry contracts completed were by Blackstock Masonry and Bill Henson Masonry. The firms did the masonry work on two phases of bachelor enlisted men's housing for Trident personnel at Bangor.
Another optimistic note for the masonry industry at Bangor is that pavers, originally bid by landscapers, were awarded to mason contractors, the Institute reports.
Medusa Looks to Record 3rd Quarter Earnings
Robert W. Fort, chairman of Medusa Corp., Cleveland, Ohio, informed security analysts in Chicago that Medusa's earnings per share in the third quarter of 1977 would reach a record level. He also stated that the gain over 1976 would be sufficient to put the nine months' results ahead of last year, despite a poor first quarter comparison.