That’s a more than 40 percent increase.Ī spokesperson for St. MSHA declined to comment for this story, but public documents indicate the recorded number of safety citations went up from 39 last December to 67 this May. MSHA inspects the site unannounced at least twice a year. The cement plant is monitored by the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration, or MSHA.
Randy Pryor is the operations manager at St Marys Cement Plant. When asked if a crane tipping over is a normal occurrence on a job site, Angeloff just laughs. One worker broke his leg and then the crane tipped over in early May. "I’m probably one of the people out here that was the closest to getting killed," he says.Īngeloff says he heard someone did lose their job because of it. "It probably weighed about 50 pounds and that probably dropped from about 30 to 40 feet above me," says Angeloff. This is his first time picketing in his almost 30-year career, and that’s because recently, a big piece of metal fell six feet behind him. "This is the most unsafe job I’ve been to in my 20 years of construction work" he says.ĭoug Angeloff, an electrician from Alabama, agrees. Pierce says construction work is inherently risky, but this job is different. I want to go home at the end of the day." "I mean I’ve been on job sites where people died and didn’t go home," Pierce says. He says he worries about his safety every day. Jamie Pierce is a union electrician taking a pay hit for the day to picket. It’s a huge rebuild with more than 400 workers. 31 in Charlevoix, holding up signs that say, "honk for workplace safety." Most of them are working on a construction project at St. In May, a group of 30 union workers picketed on the side of U.S. No one was hurt, but a disagreement has unfolded between people who think the incident is a fluke and people who say it’s one of many safety issues. Global CCSI has some of the attributes for carbon capture, and the Direct Air Capture Coalition is a new organization addressing some of those issues in the DAC space.Īm I missing similar organizations? Let me know in the comments.Last month, a crane tipped over at a large construction project at St. I don’t see a direct parallel yet for carbon capture or carbon removal. It was a neat group to be part of because there's just so much information and ideas and goodwill. They got together and then figured out what was good for the market and provided education and awareness to regulators and the public. Most of the industry attended the annual meeting, and they were very collegial. They had this Gasification Technologies Council (now Global Syngas Technology Council). It got me thinking back 15 – 20 years when I was focused on gasification. I was struck both by the lively discussion of the pros and cons of each technology, as well as the collegial atmosphere and acknowledgment that there is a need for many different technologies to address the size and breadth of the market.
One of the carbon capture panels was moderated by an engineering firm and included three fairly different capture technologies. Smaller than in the past, it has evolved to reflect the current market. The conference has changed significantly from a decade ago.
This February, I attended PowerGen for the first time in many years.
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