Chipping slag from foundry ladles case study
A small foundry used a hand-operated pneumatic breaker to chip slag from the foundry's ladles, resulting in daily exposures well above the exposure limit value. The exposure was virtually eliminated by introducing a machine-mounted hydraulic breaker for most of this work.
![Chipping by hand with a pneumatic breaker](../../../assets/images/handchipping.jpg)
Chipping by hand with a pneumatic breaker
![Chipping with machine-mounted breaker](../../../assets/images/machinechipping.jpg)
Chipping with machine-mounted breaker