Pit & Quarry, February 2015

Safety the Law Continued from page 52 many of the current findings that inspectors make on citation forms For example instead of negligence descriptions being none low moderate high and reckless disregard as they are currently the choices will be that the operator was negligent or not MSHA sees this as a way to avoid operator disagreement and legal contests For operators it is almost a one sizefits all situation MSHA almost never finds no negligence That means operators will always be negligent with no shades of gray Mitigating circumstances will not be considered If MSHA wants to raise the negligence the only other choice is reckless disregard and this will not bode well for companies This finding is rarely used even for unwarrantable failure citations and orders but with new regulations this may change Also similar reductions in finding options are being considered for the gravity criterion MSHA also wants to limit the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission from exercising independent judgment P Q February Ad Index Advertiser Page Phone Website Am Cast Inc pg 23 888 993 2772 www amcastonline com Astec Industries Inc pg 9 423 867 4210 www astecinc com AZFAB pg 36 866 616 9351 www azfab com Baldor Electric Co Back Cover 479 646 4711 www baldor com Bitco Insurance pg 24 800 475 4477 www bitco com C L Dews Sons Foundry Machinery pg 34 877 339 7339 www dewsfoundry com Deister Inside Front Cover 260 426 7495 www deistermachine com EIW LLC pg 29 515 243 1123 www eiwllc com Elrus Aggregate Systems pg 19 888 535 7877 www elrus com Emerson Industrial Automation pg 26 859 342 7900 www emerson com Eriez pg 49 888 300 3743 www eriez com FMI pg 15 919 787 8400 www fminet com Hazemag USA pg 43 724 439 3514 www hazemag com Hercules Sealing Products pg 50 800 514 8937 www herculesus com Hoyt Wire Cloth Lumsden Corp pg 31 717 394 6871 www hoytwirecloth com Italvibras USA Inc pg 55 815 872 1350 www italvibrasusa com John Deere pgs 6 7 800 503 3373 www johndeere com Kleemann Wirtgen America pg 11 615 501 0602 www wirtgenamerica com Libra Systems pg 40 215 256 1700 www librasystems com Loup Electronics pg 57 877 489 5687 www loupelectronics com Luf Industries Ltd Inside Back Cover 888 349 5833 www lufndustries com Martin Sprocket and Gear Inc pg 37 817 258 3000 www martinsprocket com McLanahan Corp pg 17 814 695 9807 www mclanahan com Mincon pg 13 540 344 9939 www mincon com NSSGA pg 53 703 525 8788 www nssga org Phoenix Process Equipment Co pg 57 502 499 6198 www dewater com Precision Pulley Idler pg 27 800 247 1228 www ppipella com REMco pg 41 925 447 0805 www remcovsi com Superior Industries pg 33 800 321 1558 www superior ind com Syntron pg 35 800 356 4898 www syntronmh com Systems Equipment Corp pg 28 563 568 6387 www systemsequipment com Tandem Products Inc pg 21 800 533 0509 www tandemproducts com Tecweigh Tecnetics Industries Inc pg 30 800 536 4880 www tecweigh com Terex Minerals Processing Systems pg 5 989 288 3121 www terexmps com Trimble Loadrite pg 48 800 528 5623 www loadritescales com Trio Engineered Products Inc pg 12 626 851 3966 www trioproducts com Van der Graaf pg 3 888 326 1476 www vandergraaf com Volvo Construction Equipment pg 25 717 532 9181 www volvoce com Volvo Penta pg 45 757 436 2800 www volvopenta com W S Tyler Canada Cover Tip 800 325 5993 www wstyler ca Legal editor Michael T Heenan is an attorney at Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak Stewart one of the nations largest labor and safety law frms He can be reached at michael heenan@ odnss com WWW PITANDQUARRY COM Our website is the industrys most useful online resource with news updated daily an Editors Blog Equipment of the Day an online Buyers Guide and extensive industry links DIGITAL EDITION iPAD APP View the electronic version of Pit Quarry magazine on your computer Click the Current Issue link on our home page or search Pit Quarry HD on the iTunes app store to download the Pit Quarry app for the iPad ADVERTISING INFORMATION Pit Quarry magazine is the leading information source for the aggregates industry and the marketshare leader among industry publications in terms of advertising sales If youd like to place advertising in Pit Quarry contact Publisher Rob Fulop at 855 460 5502 x3741 rfulop@ northcoastmedia net or National Sales Manager Dino Vitanza at x3744 dvitanza@ northcoastmedia net Dino Vitanza Rob Fulop www pitandquarry com February 2015 PIT QUARRY 63