Tag: gyratory crusher

Camera-based OSS measurement: the end of the foil ball?

Francesca Mills
An FLS gyratory crusher.

For decades, measuring a crusher’s open-side setting has been a manual job – imprecise, infrequent, and not without risk. North American Mining spoke with Ingo Neitemeier and Jayachandran Manoharan at FLS about a new technology that aims to change this. Open-side setting – or OSS. It is one of the most influential parameters in crusher performance, impacting the efficiency of…

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MSHA reports 25th, 26th fatalities of 2023

NAM Staff

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reported in August that, on July 17, a miner at Holcim’s Swampscott Quarry, Essex County, Mass., died while performing repairs on a gyratory crusher. When a component was being suspended by a crane, a lifting eye welded to the component broke free striking the miner. This is the 25th fatality reported in 2023,…

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