Loren Cook Co., Springfield, MO, manufactures air-circulating equipment such as fans and blowers. The company's fan components require small and large manual metal-spinning machines with mandrels to achieve complex design specifications and shapes on many of their products. Over the years, Loren Cook's highly skilled and trained employees performed these spinning operations with an unsurpassed safety record, assisted by redundant safeguards on the spinning machines. Long tools, to 5 ft. in length, were employed for locked-in-place blanks or parts to be manually spun, placing operators safely away from the point of operation and any rotating machine components. In 2004, an OSHA inspector observed the guarding on Loren Cook's seven small manual spinning machines and found them in compliance with OSHA's principal "General Guarding" standard, 1910.212.
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