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On Saturday, December 17, 2011, a surface mechanic was seriously injured while setting a transmission into a CAT 777F rock truck using a truck-mounted hydraulic crane. The crane suddenly failed, allowing the boom to fall, striking him in the head and knocking him down between the frame rails of the truck. The victim was standing on the frame rail of the rock truck at the time of the accident....

“Hot work” means work involving electric or gas welding, cutting, brazing, or similar flame or spark-producing operations.  Click “Read More” below to view and download the ppt. … HomeRead More »

This “Hearing Loss Recordibility” question was added to the Recordkeeping Directive on 1/12/2012. What rules must an employer ensure that a physician or other licensed health care professional use to make a determination that a hearing loss case is not work-related under section 1904.10(b)(6)? … HomeRead More »

Many THANKS to John Newquist, Assistant Regional Administrator at DOL-OSHA, for providing this update.  Click “Read More” below… … HomeRead More »

Breathe in, Breathe out, Breathe in… Another deadline has passed for the roll out of the new Globally Harmonized System for our Hazardous Communications Standard.  With the politics in D.C. being what they are in this election year I am going to take a stab at guessing we may not see this roll out at all in 2012! … HomeRead More »

Here is what OSHA claims the cost savings will be for the “Globally Harmonized System” (GHS) for the revised HazCom Standard.  Not sure I am buying these “cost savings”. … HomeRead More »

  MANY THANKS to my NEW & RENEWING “Partners in Safety”for their support! since 2006 since 2007    since 2012  Wounded Warrior 924 $12.00/each Click Here or contact Jeff Bayer directly @ (513) 604-0858 for your safety supply needs 2012 Fatality Tracker Electrical 6 (2011 = 81) (2010 = 90) (2009 = 100) Forklift/Manlift Mobile Equipment 3 (2011 = 84)...

Explosion at Belle Vue: 2 injured between life and death Tuesday, September 27, 2011, 17:11 An explosion occurred this morning at the Belle-Vue brewery Leeuw-Saint-Pierre. Two people were seriously injured. Their prognosis is engaged. The leak was stopped. An ammonia leak occurred around 8:50 Tuesday when three workers from an outside firm conducted the dismantling of an old installation. ” The...

WARNING!!!  There is some VERY HARSH Language (“F” Bomb) in this video and the video shows some of the worst and dangerous horseplay you could ever imagine.  If harsh language, immature and STUPID workers offend you do NOT view this video.  By ALL MEANS TURN DOWN your volume as the video may offend a co-worker.   I was somewhat offended, more by the act than the language,...

At approximately 05:35 hours on 19 November 1984 a major fire and a series of catastrophic explosions occurred at the government owned and operated PEMEX LPG Terminal at San Juan Ixhuatepec, Mexico City. As a consequence of these events some 500 individuals were killed and the terminal destroyed. Three refineries supplied the facility with LPG on a daily basis. The plant was being filled from a refinery...