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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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The next time someone says safety is just common sense… well now we can see what that gets us!
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On April 9, 1998, an 18,000-gallon propane tank exploded (BLEVE) at the Herrig Brothers farm in Albert City, Iowa. The explosion killed two volunteer firefighters and injured seven other emergency response personnel. Several buildings were also damaged by the blast. CLICK HERE for the CSB Report.
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This is the full video of the worker in China riding a trackhoe bucket, which the trackhoe is sitting on a demo’ed building.
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WARNING! This variance applies ONLY to Nucor Steel Connecticut Incorporated at its Wallingford, CT facility and the SPECIFIC TASK listed. It can NOT be adopted by anyone else or any other workplace (NOT even another Nucor facility) in any fashion whatsoever.
This information is being shared for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY as OSHA allows the use of a “Trapped Key Safety System”...
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This week we got word that the Olin Corp has announced that they will be reconfiguring their Henderson, NV facility to make bleach. This is the facility that in 1991 when owned and operated by Pioneer Chlor Alkali Company, Inc. had the largest Chlorine release on record, 70-100 tons of chlorine. The response to the release was not well managed and FEMA did an investigation to examine the...
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With the recent tragedy in Boston, MA involving an anhydrous ammonia (NH3) fatality the internet is buzzing with discussions about what level of PPE is needed to SAFELY respond to an uncontrolled release of NH3. The accident in Boston involved an ammonia refrigeration process inside an enclosed building without adequate ventilation (based on the levels of NH3 the first entry team encountered)....
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This video is the best source of details we have at this time regarding the fatal NH3 accident at a Boston, MA Seafood Warehouse, as well as a major NH3 release during an oil draining incident at an ice rink. The boston incident involved a liquid pipe on the bottom of the receiver.
These guys provide us the FIRST-HAND perspective of responding to uncontrolled releases of NH3. The...
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