Safety Alerts

Attached is a Quality and Safety Alert for ALL DeWalt Large Grinders that have been manufactured prior to week 32, of this year.  These grinders have been manufactured since sometime earlier than 1995.  This is a real one and a good catch as this does NOT appear on the DeWalt website under their recalls section…....

RECALL NOTICE – PROTECTA SHOCK ABSORBING LANYARDSCapital Safety is aware of a reported inadvertent disconnection during use of the locking snaphook used in a series of Y-shaped Protecta lanyards with twin elastic lanyard legs that both attach directly to the eye of the snaphook. The locking snaphook used on these lanyards is part number 9502573. …...

Unauthorized Marking of Compressed Gas Cylinders November 16, 2011… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

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September 29, 2010 To – MA17 Solenoid Valve Customer Re – Safety Recall of certain Sporlan/Refrigeration Specialties MA17 solenoid valves Standard Machine & Manufacturing Co. manufactures MA17 solenoid valves for Sporlan and Refrigeration Specialties, both divisions of Parker Hannifin Corporation. Standard Machine and Parker have been made aware of a small number of fractures of…...

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Pressure Testing Incident 15 injuries and one fatality… Membership Required You must be a member to access this content.View Membership LevelsAlready a member? Log in here...

I just got these today (5/23/11).  There is not much info on them other than the incident that happened during another pneumatic (NOT hydro) pressure test.  I do not yet know the pressures involved, $$$ of damage, injuries, etc.  It appears to have occurred in China based on the letters on the buildings.  Members can…...

A rail car was being steam cleaned to prepare it for some maintenance work. The job was still in progress at the end of the shift so the employee decided to block it in. Without vacuum relief the rail car cooled, the steam condensed and the rail car imploded…. Membership Required You must be a...