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According to China’s Maritime Safety Administration (CMSA), the shipping container explosion aboard the box ship YM Mobility at Ningbo in 2024 was caused by thermal runaway in a cargo of organic peroxides.
The container in question was a refrigerated shipping container filled with tert-butyl perbenzoate (TBPB), a common activator for making plastics like polyethylene and polyester. It...
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This edition of NFPA 660 was approved as an American National Standard on December 6, 2024.
NFPA 660 was written by consolidating the requirements of NFPA 652, Standard on the Fundamentals of Combustible Dust; NFPA 61, Standard for the Prevention of Fires and Dust Explosions in Agricultural and Food Processing Facilities; NFPA 484, Standard for Combustible Metals; NFPA 655, Standard for Prevention...
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The image below is just one I found on the internet, but it is a good representation of the ones I have seen and worked with.
Today, during an audit, I was asked by the EHS pro, if I thought there large CNC machines were Confined Spaces/Permit-Required Confined Spaces. At first, I said I did not think so, but was we stood there and began assessing the space, we came to the conclusion that it meets...
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Most companies will go to some degree of lengths in selecting “qualified” contractors to include things such as job examples, a list of qualifications, require subscription to the ISN network, etc. Even then, though, sometimes bad apples slip through the cracks if the company needing a “qualified” contractor doesn’t develop a scope or set of expectations for said contractor. But what about who performs...
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Recently, I shared the investigation results of the fatal LPG explosion in Hillsboro, OH. The cylinder had been overfilled, leading to its catastrophic failure, which then led to LPG gas finding an ignition source in the car repair garage and exploding. I took some flak for stating that I have seen overfilling of LPG cylinders often. Many believe it to be a rarity. Today I was performing an audit...
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The term “Highly Toxic” has been codified in the IFC as:
A material which produces a lethal dose or lethal concentration which falls within any of the following categories: 1. A chemical that has a median lethal dose (LD50) of 50 milligrams or less per kilogram of body weight when administered orally to albino rats weighing between 200 and 300 grams each. 2. A chemical that has a median...
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I used this humorous video to open my casual analysis training. Every parent has been there, but our kids’ curiosity is great. It’s how they LEARN. Sure, they may not understand all they are hearing (the same goes for adults in accident investigations), but that curiosity is what we need when leading a causal analysis activity. As facilitators, we will NOT know all the answers, but...
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At 11:05 a.m. on August 5, 2022, an employee, 59, was pressure testing a pressure vessel for leaks with compressed air when the air pressure became too high within the vessel. The lid of the vessel flew open and struck the employee in the arm, abdomen, chest, and head. The employee was taken to the hospital and died due to his injuries on September 27, 2022.
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At 4:00 p.m. on April 14, 2023, an employee, 23, working for a structural sheet metal manufacturer, was performing hydrostatic testing on an air-conditioned heat exchanger. A plug failed under pressure, striking the employee. The employee was killed after being impaled in the chest by the plug.
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In 1981, workers at LANL were about to fill hydrogen (H2) cylinders from a large, H2-filled tube trailer. They used a manifold containing residual oxygen (O2), which was also connected to a tube trailer of O2 with only one valve separating these incompatible gases. When the mix ignited, the workers attempted to purge O2 from the manifold using low-pressure H2. The resultant fire destroyed the valve,...
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