Dear Bryan I am Technical Safety Council, send to you report died Accident. My name, Nicolau Bello – Sorocaba/SP/ Brazil On 06 June, to 8.30 h, it happened a fatal accident in the Plant of NONONO, in Brazil. The victim, a worker of NONONO (ABB), it…...
Dear Sirs I’m a Brazilian safety technician and would like to say that my safety training quality has been very much improved with the assistance of your great site! I want to participate by sending you photos of a fatal accident (electrocution) that took place…...
Brian, These photos were taken in Colorado. What happened is the truck was improperly loaded at the quarry (the left side was much heavier than the right side.) When the truck got to the jobsite and tilted the bed up, the extra weight on the left side caused the supports…...
Hi Bryan, These two incidents occurred in two separate coal mines in central XXXXXXXX just over 12 months ago. The first of the two is the result of when people do not park in designated parking areas. This incident occurred at night when the driver of the Toyota Troop Carrier…...
Date: 12/20/02 What Happened? Crew completed running 3 1/2 tubing in the well and was in the process of stripping off the BOPE (Stotler). The crew stripped the BOP up off the wellhead and installed slips under the stotler. The stotler remained on the stup in the slips. Crew worker unlatched the tubing…...
Summary: About 8:00 am 02/03/03 ***** personal began to set up the 50-ton rough terrain crane at the oil barge dock to unload cargo for the ***** project. After the crane was positioned approximately 8′ from the edge of the bulkhead and all pre-lift checks had been made with dry run we proceeded to lift…...
Construction Industry Program Incident Report: Truck-mounted Concrete Placing Boom Overturns Category: Cranes & hoists Sub-category: Concrete placing equipment Relevant to: All construction sectors, concreting contractors, truckmounted concrete boom pump owners and operators Date of Issue: 22 January 2003 Reference No: 03: 001 Authorised by: Geoff Thomas, Construction Industry Program Director Incident…...
Event: Caustic burnDate/Time: 17 April 2003, 0815 hrs.Location: premix mud tankShift and Team: Daylight tourInvestigation Date(s): 17-18 April 2003Report completed by: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX CONCLUSION: The accident was preventable and results from: Employee did not use proper procedure for mixing caustic soda. Employee had his coveralls tucked inside the top of his…...
UPDATED on 3/11/03 Dear Bryan: Am I missing something? I have read the caption on the below attached photo / description several times….and I can appreciate the (additional) safety violations noted, but nowhere is thebiggie – Number one should have been, it is…...
Colleagues Please find attached a photograph highlighting the dangers associated with pressurized containers and the warm weather. This is a picture of a pressurized can that exploded in a person’s vehicle and imbedded itself in the back seat of the car. The metal backing in the seat back stopped it from penetrating the seat completely…....
A worker was struck on the head by a compressed air hose which blew off its fitting on a piece of equipment. He received serious head injuries which proved fatal. The air hose was held by a hose clamp on the fitting with no keeper or restraining chain or sling to prevent the hose from…...
BOILERMAKER SUFFERS SERIOUS EYE INJURY IN GRINDING INCIDENT Fluor Australia released a Safety Alert on 23 January, dealing with an incident that happened on a Queensland site on 14 January which resulted in a boilermaker suffering permanent loss of vision in his left eye when using a hand-held grinder. We have provided the Safety Alert…...
