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Trainer's Handbook: Safe Work Practices for Lead-Acid Battery Charging Can Prevent Explosions and Burns
January 2012
There are a lot of ways to be injured or killed around forklifts: Workers can be run over, impaled, crushed by falling loads, or crushed when the forklift rolls over. . . . more »

Process Safety: NTSB Issues Final Report on San Bruno Pipeline Explosion; Past and Present Practices Combined to Create Disaster
November 2011
Just after 6 p.m. on Sept. 9, 2010, a natural gas transmission pipeline owned and operated by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) ruptured in San Bruno, leaving a crater 72 feet long by 26 feet wide. The resulting fire destroyed 38 homes, damaged 70 more, and killed eight people. . . . more »

Trainer's Handbook: Prevent Flash Fire Injuries by Recognizing Hazardous Conditions
September 2011
Welder Adrian Flores was setting up his equipment 12 feet underground in December 2010 at a public works project in Montebello when he dropped an electrode holder. As the electrode holder landed, it sparked, igniting a methane flash fire that severely burned Flores. . . . more »

Featured Resource: Dust Off This Combustible Dust Checklist
September 2011
It can obscure your vision and clog your nose and throat. It can coat surfaces, making signage hard to read and contaminating materials. But dust poses another serious hazard, too--it can explode. And materials you might not ordinarily think of as fire hazards, such as foodstuffs, can be extremely hazardous when they are present as dust. . . . more »

Hazardous Chemicals: San Bruno Pipeline Explosion Leads to Urgent Safety Recommendations from NTSB
March 2011
Jessica Morales and Joseph Ruigomez were watching a football game at Ruigomez' home on Sept. 9, 2010. Arturo Vasquez was fixing himself a snack in the kitchen of his own house, not far away. Jacqueline and Janessa Grieg were waiting for family members to return for evening activities that had been planned. Like the other residents of the Crestmoor neighborhood in San Bruno, they were all caught completely by surprise just after 6 p.m., when disaster struck. . . . more »

Explosives: Cal/OSHA Clarifies Requirements for the Restricted Zone; Who Can Be Where, And When, During Blasting
October 2010
An alert Cal/OSHA inspector was driving along a public road in 2001 when he spotted an air drill lying near the roadway. The inspector recognized it as a tool used to drill blasting holes and wondered why it was so close to the road. When he stopped to check it out, he discovered that blasting holes were indeed drilled in the area--one of them was closer than 33 feet from the road. . . . more »

Hazard Identification: Food for Thought; Food Production Facilities Find Themselves on High Hazard Industries List
August 2010
Although both working conditions and sanitation have improved since the days when Upton Sinclair detailed the horrors of Chicago's meatpacking industry in his 1906 novel The Jungle, food processing and manufacturing facilities still pose serious hazards to workers . . . more »

Combustible Dust: Federal OSHA Takes First Step Toward Combustible Dust Rule
January 2010
Since 1980, more than 130 American workers have been killed and more than 780 have been injured in combustible dust explosions, federal OSHA has found. The agency considered the problem serious enough that, since October 2007 . . . more »

Bulletin: CSB releases bulletin on risks of gas purging
December 2009
CSB releases bulletin on risks of gas purging. In a new safety bulletin, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is urging companies, gas installers, and contractors to follow safe practices during gas p . . . more »

Trainer's Handbook: Lower the BOOM on Injuries by Training Workers Who Handle Explosives
September 2009
It wasn't much of a Fourth of July celebration this year on Okracoke Island, North Carolina--not after four people were killed, one was seriously injured, and two more suffered minor injuries when a fireworks truck . . . more »

News Note: Chemical Safety Board Releases New Combustible Dust Video
September 2009
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new safety video depicting how accumulations of combustible dust at worksites can provide the fuel for devastating explosions. The video, "Combustible Dust: An Insidious Hazard," features computer animations that illustrate three major dust explosion accidents . . . more »

News Note: Chemical Safety Board Releases Propane Safety Video
December 2008
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has released a new 23-minute safety video, "Half an Hour to Tragedy," highlighting the causes of a deadly propane gas explosion at the Little General convenience s . . . more »

Bulletin: MSHA launches annual roof safety initiative
September 2008
The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has launched its annual Preventive Roof/Rib Outreach Program (PROP) to highlight the potential hazards of roof falls and coal outbursts. Since 1997, 29 . . . more »

Combustible Dusts: Act Now to Protect Workers from Explosions
August 2008
On Feb. 7, 2008, the city of Savannah, Ga., shook to the blast of an explosion at the Imperial Sugar refinery, which claimed 13 lives. In the four months following that incident, more than 50 additional combustible dust explosions occurred in the United States, including one in the Los Angeles . . . more »

Fire Safety: Could Your Business Survive a Wildfire?
June 2008
The 2007 wildfire season was devastating for Southern California. Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes, more than 2,000 houses were destroyed, more than half a million acres burned across seven counties, and more than 3,000 businesses were directly . . . more »

Appeals Board Decisions: Don't Let Compressed Air Tank Requirements Trip You Up
June 2008
Noramor Industries, Inc., of Corona (near Anaheim), creates reproductions of original artwork for galleries and businesses to use. After Cal/OSHA inspected the employer's production facility in 2005, the agency issued citations for 21 separate violations, including one for . . . more »

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