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2016 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
7
(2015 = 38)
(2014 = 55)
(2013 = 32)
(2012 = 68)
Forklift/Aerial
15
(2015 = 48)
(2014 = 60)
(2013 = 62)
(2012 = 52)
Mining*
7
(2015 = 21)
(2014 = 401)
(2013 = 87*)
(2012 = 92*)
*ONLY USA
Explosions
17
(2015 = 135)
(2014 = 157)
(2013 = 194)
(2012 = 241)
Cranes
30*
(2015 = 28)
(2014 = 20)
(2013 = 51)
(2012 = 52)
*18 were...
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This was a significant decision by the OSHRC as it answered the debate… do isolation plans associated with complex energy isolations need to include the means to verify Zero Energy State (ZES) for each isolated source? There answer… YES, and it MUST be DOCUMENTED in the isolation plan/worksheet. The refinery’s arguments that the means to verify ZES was not required to...
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I am not 100% convinced this was a “diesel tank”. Having seen over a dozen diesel tanks explode (most in tests) this explosion looks nothing like it. It is not a boil-over either, but I am pretty sure the FD would know the difference between LPG tank and a diesel tank. In what I can see this was a BLEVE, but do BLEVE’s occur with atmospheric vessels containing combustible...
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Now I am no construction safety or crane expert, but not so sure I would be posing with this piece of work! Heck he is already under a load just by standing there.
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Oh my – oh my! Watching the manner in which these 1-ton cylinders are being handled, loaded, and secured, makes one wonder if any placards found their way on this shipping container!!! Friendly advice – do NOT handle your NH3 1-ton cylinders like this!
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On March 23rd a worker at a seafood processing building/warehouse in Boston, MA was killed in a catastrophic release of anhydrous ammonia. Since then there has been much speculation as to how this tragedy occurred and whether or not the facility’s refrigeration process fell under OSHA’s PSM and EPA’s RMP standards. As it appears at the time of this writing, neither OSHA’s or EPA’s process safety...
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One of the means to protect an OUTSIDE atmospheric storage tank is a weak roof-to-shell seam. As we can see in this video, a diesel tank at a wharf in Apia, Samoa was equipped with such a means of fire venting. I am assuming this on the basis of the information we can obtain from the drone footage. We see the other two (2) diesel tanks do NOT have a normal emergency vent and...
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This video from India is an excellent lesson in how NOT to handle compromised containers. In the USA we have an established practice of removing as much of the HAZMAT as we can before we attempt to move the container. As you will see in this video, things can go badly really quick when attempting to move a container that has been compromised and still contains the HAZMAT. The HAZMAT...
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Sometimes I come across some items as I do work for clients that are priceless in helping us make our case for safety and this one is a “feather in our [hard] hat”. Apparently some employers in the state of California decided that using pressure vessels built to some code other than ASME Section VIII was a means to “save money” or for some other crazy reason. The...
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We have all seen the videos and pics of the storage racks collapsing and most of us are amazed at how violent these incidents are; yet how many of us can walk through our storage areas and not find missing anchor bolts, corroded and damaged structural components, no posted load ratings, or out-of-straight support columns? In a recent OSHA citations during a PSM inspection,...
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OSHA has cited a food manufacturing company for 25 serious and one other violation for exposing workers to hazardous chemicals, electrical dangers and fall hazards. OSHA discovered the violations after an inspection of the facility. The agency inspected the plant after an evacuation of the facility sent workers to the hospital as a precaution on Oct. 16, 2015. The citations include multiple violations...
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