This video demonstrates the lengths some will go to “get it done”. We can see two workers with fire extinguishers, positioning themselves on both sides of the pipeline as if they know what’s going to happen. These are NOT Hot Work “fire watches”; these workers are there to do just what they expected: put the fire out once it ignites. Doing that hot work in a trench, dealing with a flammable that has vapors heavier than air and this is their solution to do this work is simply INSANE. It violates the most fundamental Hot Work practice…
