Masonry Magazine January 1974 Page.30
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Masonry Design Featured at Seminar
Principal topic of discussion at the recent seminar sponsored by the Northeast Ohio region of the Brick Institute of America in Akron, Ohio, was the new Social Science Building on the University of Akron campus. The audience, which consisted mainly of architects and engineers, heard Ed Heine of Heine, Crider, Williamson, Schutte & Mochon, architects of the project, explain the concepts of the building design and why brick masonry panels and architectural concrete block were selected over other building materials. Steve Hulvey of Veto O-Vitz Masonry Systems, Brunswick, Ohio, described the engineering design of the building along with other loadbearing and non-loadbearing panel projects his firm has done.
WINTER CLOTHING HAZARD
In early autumn in the Northeast the nights had begun to turn chilly. Night shift workers at a shipyard were wearing sweaters and jackets to ward off the unseasonable cold. A maintenance electrician had been chilly for several nights, despite wearing a jacket and heavy pants. He decided to dig out his insulated underwear, a pair of nylon-shell, polyester-filled underwear he had purchased the previous winter. Wearing the insulated underwear, the electrician reported to work and remained warm for the first part of the night, even though he was outside in a northerly wind for several hours.
After his meal break the electrician was called to assist in an engine room repair on a submarine. He was asked to remove some cables from the side of a bulkhead which was to be welded by two welders. The electrician removed the wiring to a safe distance and then retired to the next room to await completion of the repair.
The welders called him back in a few minutes. He began to replace the wiring when one of the welders noticed a minor fault in his weld. The welder asked the electrician to stop while he touched up the weld. The electrician stepped several feet from the welder and turned his back.
A spark from the welder's rod struck the electrician's pants leg, just beneath his calf. By the time he became aware of any pain, his pants leg was on fire.
The electrician quickly beat at the fire with a pair of gloves, but even after the flames were out he continued to feel a sharp pain in his leg. The other welder noticed what was happening and quickly tore the pants leg away from his calf. Underneath the material the insulated underwear had burned and melted, forming a hot plastic mass which had adhered to the electrician's skin.
The electrician was taken to a hospital where emergency room doctors found that he had been seriously burned by the molten plastic.