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Employee #1, a welder, was inside a double-walled, approximately 5.5 ft in diameter steel tank to perform leak tests. A contractor had installed new stainless steel piping to the 1,000-gal blending tank, and initial use of the tank revealed some leakage where the new pipe entered the bottom of the tank. To perform the leak tests, the contractor applied air at 120 psi to the shell space and used a soap...
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It is my professional opinion that “golf carts” need to be managed as a Powered Industrial Truck (PIT). I have seen firsthand three (3) serious accidents resulting in life-altering injuries. We see fatalities like this one several times a year:
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/worker-at-nh-storage-facility-dies-after-being-pinned-under-golf-cart/3803079
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Many of us do load testing on our cranes and such and rarely do we have a failure. But when things do fail, they do so CATASTROPHICALLY, as shown below when this ship loading/unloading system failed during its load test…
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On March 6, 2018, a 49-year-old pipefitter was hit in the chest by a pressurized 12-inch diameter polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe during a hydrostatic pressure test of a fire suppression system. The sudden pipe movement was attributed to a pipe joint connection failure in a buried section of the pipeline.
The failure was due to torque shear bolts at the joint connection that were not tightened, which...
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Imagine driving a vehicle without a dashboard. No feedback whatsoever as to how well you and the vehicle are performing.
Sure, we can do it, but without feedback on our performance and the vehicle’s, I doubt we’d meet the state’s defined and quantified standards for “safe operation of a motor vehicle.”
Just consider speed as one of the critical safety indicators. How...
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Natural gas was released into the basement of the Realty Building and caused an explosion in Youngstown, Ohio, after a member of a scrap removal crew cut into a steel pipeline. Although the cut pipeline had not been marked or otherwise identified as containing natural gas, it did contain gas, pressurized at about 38 psig, which was released into the building and fueled the explosion.
In interviews...
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This is not only about a failed pressure test gone bad, but it is an excellent example of how “contributing factors” play a role in accidents. Deviating from the test plan, changing the time frame in which the test is to be conducted due to a noise ordinance, etc., played a role in this multimillion-dollar failure.
A third-party investigation report commissioned by the contractor XXXXXXXX...
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) intends to update the medical evaluation provisions currently required by the Respiratory Protection Standard (29 CFR 1910.134) for filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs) and loose-fitting powered air purifying respirators (PAPRs). This action will be deregulatory and / or burden reducing to employers whose employees wear such devices. This rulemaking...
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OSHA updated its agenda page and is saying it will publish an NPRM for the LOTO standard this December.
Recent technological advancements that employ computer-based controls of hazardous energy (e.g., mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, chemical, and radiation) conflict with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) existing lock-out/tag-out (LOTO) standard. The use of these computer-based...
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WorkSafe BC (British Columbia) is proposing some thoughtful improvements to its Part 6, Substance Specific Requirements, sections 6.116 to 6.132 — Toxic Process Gases. The hazardous materials that this effort focuses on are:
ammonia 7664-41-7
chlorine 7782-50-5
chlorine dioxide 10049-04-4
ethylene oxide 75-21-8
ozone 10028-15-6
sulphur dioxide 7446-09-5
This standard reads much like...
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Upon investigation, it was found that an oxygen–acetylene welding setup inside the shipping container leaked, causing the closed shipping container to fill with the highly flammable mixture of oxygen and acetylene. There was also an upright freezer in use, powered by an extension cord running into the shipping container. This energized equipment provided an ignition source for the flammable vapors,...
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