Working for the U.S. at sea is a dangerous job, and one that is performed by thousands of people. Workers at harbors and on ships overseas are not covered by the same worker’s compensation laws as those working on American soil. Instead, they are covered by the Longshore and harbor workers compensation act which provides over $747 million in monetary, medical, and vocational rehabilitation benefits.

The Longshore act encompasses a number of regulations, also including the Jones Act which deals with cabotage and requires that U.S. flagships do all transportation of goods on the water between U.S. ports and that they be c

People most often associate cooling towers with nuclear power plants, although they are also used to some extent in large chemical plants and other industrial plants. What are cooling towers? Cooling towers are heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heat to the atmosphere. Without cooling towers, people who work in the energy field would be at risk of suffering serious injury from burns.

The first hyperboloid cooling towers were built in the Netherlands in 1918. By the turn of the century 18 years before, there were many evaporative methods of recycling cooled water in use in areas without suitable water supplies. Today, dry Continue Reading | No Comments