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OSHA has announced their Information Collection Activities; Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Permit-Required Confined Spaces in General Industry Standard. Some of these announcements have some interesting tid-bits in them. This PRCS announcement listed all the documentation one would need to fully comply with 1910.146. Most of us could list many of these items, but some...
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Chemical Reaction During Cargo Transfer MC-307 Cargo Tank Whitehall, MI May 1, 2001
NTSB Number HZB-00/03 PDF
Accident No:
DCA99MZ006
Location:
Whitehall, Michigan
Date of Accident:
June 4, 1999
Time:
3:50 a.m. eastern standard time
Carrier:
Quality Carriers, Inc.
Vehicles:
MC-307 Cargo Tank
Injured:
1 fatality and 1 injury
Evacuated:
11 people from the plant
Property Damage:
In...
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Chemical Reaction During Cargo Transfer
Matlack, Inc Louisville, KY November 19, 1998
NTSB Number HZB 00/02 PDF
Accident No:
DCA99MZ003
Location:
Louisville, Kentucky
Date of Accident:
November 19, 1998
Time:
8:15 a.m. eastern standard time
Carrier:
Matlack, Inc.
Vehicles:
MC-307 Cargo Tank
Injured:
7 minor
Evacuated:
About 2,400 people were evacuated from the plant and surrounding...
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One standard that OSHA failed to update when they revised 1910.1200 was 1910.1020 – Access to employee exposure and medical records. This standard still uses the term MSDS and does not address my question about the changing of MSDS for the new SDS. Granted, a lot of the exposure info on the new SDS(s) has not changed, but some chemicals did get “classified” differently...
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WARNING – this video shows the ignition of the dust cloud and people within the dust cloud on fire and trying to escape. The sights and sounds of this video ARE VERY GRAPHIC in nature, but shows the hazards of Corn Starch and its ease to ignite.
Corn Starch has one of the lowest MIE’s in the Combustible Dust family. We do not yet know the ignition source, but a high wattage...
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No, your car will not be a “covered process” under PSM, but only because it will NOT have 10,000 pounds of this Category 1 Flammable Gas. But this new refrigerant is coming and it will be in your car’s air conditioning very soon! A lot of the literature for this new refrigerant uses phrases like “XXXXXX can be described as being “mildly flammable” as...
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Did EPA just issue RMP citations because a facility did not have a Car Seal program? Although they mention Lockout/Tagout in their citation, LOTO is NOT the proper control technique for the “sliding line blind” that was “mistakenly opened by an employee during operation of the unit“. LOTO is purely for servicing and maintenance and is not permitted to be used for...
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As summer heat intensifies, OSHA’s focus on preventing heat related illness intensifies. With this intensity, many employers are going hi-tech to collect “heat exposure data” to establish work practices based on exposures. I have seen a recent increase in advertising for devices that can measure wet-bulb temperatures in workplaces and they are tying these reading back...
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2015 Fatality Tracker
Electrical
23
(2014 =55)
(2013 = 32)
(2012 = 68)
Forklift/Aerial
21
(2014 = 60)
(2013=62)
(2012 = 52)
Mining*
16
(2014 = 401)
(2013=87*)
(2012 = 92*)
*ONLY developed nations and legal mines
Explosions
97
(2014...
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May 29, 2015
MEMORANDUM FOR:
REGIONAL ADMINISTRATORS
THROUGH:
DOROTHY DOUGHERTYDeputy Assistant Secretary
FROM:
THOMAS GALASSI, DirectorDirectorate of Enforcement Programs (DEP)
SUBJECT:
Interim Enforcement Guidance for Hazard Communication 2012 (HCS 2012) June 1, 2015 Effective Date
This memorandum is to provide additional, interim guidance on the Hazard Communication 2012 June 1,...
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