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Now you see it… Now you don’t! Watch a DOT 412 Trailer disappear before your eyes and no it is NOT a magic trick! It is imperative to properly follow the Hazardous Materials Regulations. Improperly shipped hazardous materials can sometimes end with a catastrophic failure. In this case, a corrosive material was placed in an incompatible aluminum cargo tank for shipment. The company...
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This week Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) calling on the agency to strengthen the proposed revisions to the Risk Management Plan rule. Specifically, she wants the following prevention requirements added to the rule before it is finalized (apparently she thinks it will be finalized...
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It seems many of you are hungry for OSHA inspection/enforcement data, so here is my next installment. In this XCEL Spread sheet I have taken the industries I spent the most time in during 2015 and listed all the OSHA citations for these industries. I have taken the liberty to break out the Top 10 (By # of citations issued) and included the # of inspections and the $’s in citations...
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UPDATE: OSHA Settlement (Final)
This week OSHA posted their citations (20 serious and 1 “other-than”) for a fatality involving Anhydrous Ammonia (NH3) at a seafood processing business in Boston, MA. None of the citations were for 1910.119 (PSM) indicating that the process contained less than 10,000 pounds of NH3. However, OSHA did issue two (2) General Duty Clause citations...
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Respondent is the owner and/or operator of a manufacturing facility located in New York. The Facility uses phosgene in a process for the manufacture of organic chemicals. Respondent filed an RMP for the Facility with EPA on or about May 14, 2009, that, among other things, identified a covered phosgene process at the Facility subject to Program 3 requirements, with a specified quantity of 32,000 pounds...
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Respondent owns and operates the bulk anhydrous ammonia storage facility located in Nebraska. On or about August 18, 2014, EPA conducted an inspection of Respondent’s Facility to determine compliance with Section 112(r) of the CAA and 40 C.F.R. Part 68. Information gathered during the EPA inspection revealed that Respondent had greater than 10,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia in a process at its...
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Many of you that followed my incident alerts may remember the transformer manufacturer that had a fatal PRCS accident that killed two workers and left a third injured back at the end of 2015. The three people were working on a transformer in the plant and were found unresponsive. Unofficial sources said the transformer was an 8×12 unit. The Sheriff’s office investigating said the first...
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My postings back in January were so popular I decided to put the data into EXCEL spreadsheets so that you all can play with the data as you see fit. I only did PSM (1910.119), Permit-Required Confined Spaces (1910.146), and Control of Hazardous Energy (LOTO 1910.147). Each workbook contains three (3) worksheets: 1) By # of Citations, 2) # of Inspections, and 3) By Penalty $. ALL files...
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Response and Restoration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Emergency Management has published this EXCELLENT guidebook which contains three (3) step-by-step fictional ALOHA example scenarios. You can complete the first two scenarios using only ALOHA. To complete the third scenario, you’ll also need the latest...
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EXCELLENT Presentation from the CSB on
the West Fertilizer Exploison
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The state of Washington’s OSHA has published their DRAFT standard on Confined Spaces. The standard pretty closely mirrors federal OSHA’s 1926.1201-.1213; however, the OSHA standards in WA must be written in a much more simplified manner, thus we end up with a standard that is easier to read and WA-OSHA does an EXCELLENT job explaining the requirements with their “Summary”...
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