Sterling 238 User Manual

Hold daily equipment inspections in addition to regular 
maintenance checks.  You will keep your equipment safe for 
production and exhibit your commitment to safety. 

 

Please read and use this manual as a guide to equipment safety.  
This manual contains safety warnings throughout, specific to each 
function and point of operation. 
 

The operator’s responsibility does not end with efficient 
production.  The operator usually has the most daily contact with 
the loader and intimately knows its capabilities and limitations. 

 

Plant and personnel safety is sometimes forgotten in the desire to 
meet incentive rates, or through a casual attitude toward machinery 
formed over a period of months or years.  Your employer probably 
has established a set of safety rules in your workplace.  Those 
rules, this manual, or any other safety information will not keep 
you from being injured while operating your equipment. 

 

ONLY YOU can make safety work for you by constantly thinking 
about what is safe and what is not.  It is often the “just once” that 
an operator reaches into a loader to remove material and it results 
in serious injury. 

Learn and always use safe operation.  Cooperate with co-workers 
to promote safe practices.  Immediately report any potentially 
dangerous situation to your supervisor or appropriate person.

 

•  NEVER place your hands or any part of your body in any 

dangerous location. 

•  NEVER operate, service, or adjust the loader without 

appropriate training and first reading and understanding this 
manual. 

•  NEVER try to pull material out of the loader with your hands 

while it is running! 

•  Before you start the loader check the following: 

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Remove all tools from the blender;

 

•  Be sure no objects (tools, nuts, bolts, clamps, bars) are 

laying in the metering or mixing area;