Re: Safety Issues

Earl Wrote:
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> I don't recall hearing about an incident on either
> the D&S or C&TS. Wherever I had worked, if a plug
> leaked under pressure, you killed the fire and
> drained the boiler to repair it. No questions
> asked.

It came up in this thread on Rypn [www.rypn.org] at the time.

"Recently, a major operation had an employee seriously scalded while trying to tighten a washout plug from the pit with an impact wrench(!!), while under steam, when I am told (I have not seen it) that the condition of the plug in question was such that it should have been scrapped and replaced, rather than put back in the hole."

That thread also brought up the observation that in recent years, following proper procedures has been noticeably slipping from what should be a proper minimum standard. A number of us old hands are feeling uncomfortably more sure that a major accident is in the not too distant future due to sloppy maintenance and training. Read the whole thread.