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On March 20, 2024, at noon, an employee, 34, was pneumatically leak-testing a newly installed 56-inch drainpipe. The pipe extended from one side of the street to the other, roughly 150 feet. They placed a rubber pressure plug on one side and another on the testing site across the street. At about 30 minutes into the air leak testing, they noticed the pressure on the pipe had decreased, so the employee...
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Those who follow my accident posts are well aware of my crusade to help everyone understand the LIMITATIONS of our atmospheric monitors. Just this year, I did my 2-day PRCS training course for a well-known petrochemical business and was challenged on the limitations of the LEL sensors on these devices. During the lunch break, several participants came back with that look on their faces… yes,...
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A few weeks ago, I was asked to spend a morning with an executive team discussing “safety metrics.” In this discussion, I realized this team was somewhat confused with all the “lingo” thrown at them by many consultants over the past 10-12 years. They were lost in what mattered and had tried a rash of failed safety efforts (which they were NOT ready for). So, I took a step...
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Pictured left to right: GVSU OSHM Professor Courtney Aloul; Interim Dean of GVSU’s Padnos College of Engineering Dr. Timothy Born; MIOSHA Director Bart Pickelman; MIOSHA Senior Safety Consultant Deb Ziel; GVSU OSHM Program Director Dave Huizen; MIOSHA CET Division Director Tarah Kile; and GVSU Acting Provost Jennifer Drake at the MIOSHA-GVSU Higher Education Alliance signing.
LANSING, Mich. – A...
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Today, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) released an update on the agency’s investigation of a fatal release of toxic hydrogen sulfide gas at the PEMEX Deer Park Refinery in Texas on October 10, 2024, which killed two workers and injured 13 others. PLEASE UNDERSTAND we may know WHAT happened, but we still do NOT know HOW or WHY it happened.
During a maintenance activity...
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British Columbia’s new First Aid Amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation relating to occupational first aid took effect November 1, 2024. These new rules/approaches to first aid are something we should all celebrate. They are a true “performance-oriented” approach to establishing the level of first Aid needed, as well as the level of supplies and training.
To...
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An investigation into an industrial explosion at an oil and gas facility has led to significant fines being laid by WorkSafe BC. A contractor who handles oilfield waste, has been ordered to pay just over $42,000 for safety violations.
Two welders, working directly above a fluid tank, were injured after an explosion inside a shaker building. According to WorkSafe BC, the company failed to conduct...
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Last week, we saw the devastation of a catastrophic failure of a pressure vessel (PV) in Louisville, KY. We still do not know the cause of this failure, just that it was a “cook vessel #6. SAFTENG members can see my breakdown of the photographic evidence available from the Courrier Journal (local Louisville newspaper). But this video is a “marketing” video from the company’s...
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Respondent operates a seafood processing and distribution facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts that uses anhydrous ammonia in a refrigeration “process” as defined by 40 C.F.R. § 68.3, in a series of interconnected pipes and vessels at the Facility (the “Process”).
According to the respondent’s 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 Reporting Year Tier II reports, the facility maintained an average daily...
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ATF Louisville said it has definitively identified the origin of last week’s deadly plant explosion.
The investigation led them to the origin of the explosion: Cooking Vessel No. 6 on the South side of the facility.
They can say that the vessel failed definitively… it was likely an issue with overpressurization.
Some of that vessel was actually found on Payne Street after the explosion.
“There’s...
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Today the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) announced that it is sending a team of investigators to Louisville, Kentucky, to investigate the fatal explosion that occurred last week on November 12, 2024, at the Givaudan Sense Colour facility in Louisville, KY. Two employees were killed and eleven others were injured by the explosion.
According to the company, in addition to...
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On May 29, 2024, at 3:22 p.m., Employee #1, 26, was attempting to rescue a fellow employee who had been overcome by hydrogen sulfide (H2S) gas in an underground pump house.
Prior to this incident, multiple coworkers had been working in the pump house and were exposed to H2S gas emitted from a pipe containing water with by-products from sugar beets, dirt, mud, and chemicals used in water treatment....
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