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To: BenLurkin

I think you will find that the proper lock out procedures were not followed. I see these injuries all the time. It’s usually South Koreans who are here. They enter these robotic areas, while machines are running. These areas are walled off. Why you would enter them without turning everything off is crazy, but it happens all the time.


16 posted on 12/13/2018 6:02:09 AM PST by nikos1121 (With Trump, we have our own Age of Pericles)
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To: nikos1121

I was testing a new fiber optic installation at a major manufacturer’s tire plant. The local, unionized workforce was ‘gunning’ for the outside, non-union installation crew and was able to get the crew supervisor kicked off the job site for a lock-out, tag-out violation.

When I asked the plant safety officer to show me the power panel which fed the machine in question, he could not find it either. I spent 30 minutes searching for the breaker panel for one of the 400 volt, 200-ton gantry hoists.

Old plant, lousy documentation!


28 posted on 12/13/2018 6:25:55 AM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: nikos1121
I think you will find that the proper lock out procedures were not followed.

Since it was in China, I doubt they ever heard of "lock out procedures" or safety equipment in place to utilize them.

Worst accident my stamping plant had was when an electrician was crushed against the wall by an overhead crane. He was outside a caged ladder working on an electrical box mounted about 20 feet off the press shop floor. He failed to lock out the crane and the crane operator was focused on the pallet of steel he was moving and never saw the electrician......

39 posted on 12/13/2018 7:02:59 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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