OSHA cited the company for 15 safety violations following an inspection resulting from the January death of a pedestal grinder operator who was killed when the abrasive wheel on the grinder exploded ...

Imagine this scenario: A worker steps up to an abrasive wheel grinder and places a piece of metal against the wheel’s spinning surface. But because the machine was not adjusted correctly, the metal ...

Anyone who’s spent time around a workshop knows the sound. That high, urgent whine of a grinder spinning up, followed by the shower of sparks and the smell of hot metal. Abrasive wheels are everywhere ...

Grinding, or abrasive machining, is the process of removing metal in the form of minute chips by the action of irregularly shaped abrasive particles. These particles may be in bonded wheels, coated ...