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Friday morning (9/23/16) the United States Court of Appeals, For the DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT announced that OSHA could not redefine “retail” using a Letter of Interpretation (LOI) or Memorandum, OSHA would have to go through the Notice of Public Rule Making (NPRM) in order to redefine the term. Ironically, it was a 1995 LOI that actually defined “retail”...
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This week I am pulling a double whammy on guarding (Video of the week is a foot amputation in an auger). These days there are few work places that do not have this type of compactor for their “recycling” programs. This equipment is CLEARLY a PRCS, albeit one that can be easily reclassified. But as shown in this Photo of the Week these workers have not taken the proper...
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WARNING VIEWER Discretion Advised – this video may be upsetting to some viewers as it shows the painstaking mistake a worker makes by using his foot to push material into a feed auger. In this video we can see the worker standing in the “dump chute” manually feeding material into an auger hopper. It appears this worker was comfortable doing this task as he did not think...
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This is an interesting outcome, of which I have no knowledge as to how this deal was struck. But there was no monetary penalty and the facility has 60 days to make some seriously big changes/improvements. The biggest thing I noticed is that EPA is requiring the facility to make changes to comply with the latest version of CGA 2.1 – 2014 rather than the RAGAGEP the process was most...
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What’s changed in ALOHA 5.4.7?
Updated chemical library, including new DIPPR chemical data and new toxic Levels of Concern (PACs and ERPGs).
Made minor update to the RAILCAR source strength model for pressurized liquid tanks where a stationary cloud or “mist pool” is predicted to form.
Revised helps.
Made additional minor changes and bug fixes.
What’s changed in CAMEO...
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In November 2015, an operator at an explosives manufacturing plant was tasked with transferring aluminium grit atomised powder (aluminium powder) from a flexible intermediate bulk container (IBC) outside the plant to the hopper inside the plant. Using a pneumatically-driven vacuum suction pump and transfer pipe work (which incorporated five metres of PVC piping) the operator successfully...
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OSHA issues grain bin entry and LOTO Citations @ farmer-owned cooperative ($411K, Egregious Willful)
An elevator superintendent, 41, suffocated when his lifeline tangled in an unguarded and rotating auger. OSHA investigators determined three workers, including the elevator superintendent, had been standing over the unguarded auger using a pole in an attempt to dislodge soybean debris in a grain bin that contained more than 50,000 bushels of soybeans sloped 12 to 20 feet up its walls. A federal...
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In the last 10 years, RMP data show that there have been more than 1,500 reportable accidents, about 500 of which had off-site impacts. These accidents are responsible for nearly 60 deaths, some 17,000 people were injured or who sought medical treatment, almost 500,000 people evacuated or sheltered-in-place and more than $2 billion in property damages. Source
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11/22/2017 UPDATE – Nice write-up Dap-1 Ammonia Tank Explosion: Safety and Security Concerns in Chemical Process Plant in Bangladesh
Two DAP officials found guilty – an engineer and the general manager of the plant were found responsible for the accident. The accused have been found guilty of negligence in duty as they did not inspect the safety of the factory or repair...
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