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Steve Daniels wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:33:09 -0500, against all advice, something compelled "Ralph Mowery" , to say: I work where we have compressed air all over the plant. The compressors operate on 4160 volts to give an adea of the size. Wow. Thass a lot a volts. BIG MF compressor! LMAO. |
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Steve Barker wrote:
dpb wrote: Smitty Two wrote: ... Thanks for the link. I read it. I think the danger is highly overstated. We've had the occasional blowout, but it's always been a failed glue joint. It's loud and inconvenient, but hardly dangerous. Of course, none of the thousand or so joints I've personally done have ever failed, because I'm meticulous with them. We've had at least a half dozen OSHA inspectors over the last 30 years. None of them squawked about our PVC air lines. I wonder what's really up with that. Seems odd to me that PVC could be rated to 200 psi or so and then explode around 80 or 90. This strikes me as the freak accident thing. The worst injury cited in your link was a broken nose. ... "PVC piping buried 3 feet underground at a Yakima manufacturing plant exploded, opening up a crater approximately 4 feet deep by 3 feet across." i dare you to cite a link or document to support this ridiculous statement. Will a document from the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration suffice? "PVC piping buried 3 feet underground at a Yakima manufacturing plant exploded, opening up a crater approximately 4 feet deep by 3 feet across." http://www.nmsu.edu/safety/news/news..._air_lines.htm Of course, if you had asked for a RELIABLE source... |
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Steve Barker wrote:
.... i dare you to cite a link or document to support this ridiculous statement. I simply pasted it from the OSHA-site link earlier in the thread... -- |
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HeyBub wrote:
Steve Barker wrote: dpb wrote: Smitty Two wrote: ... Thanks for the link. I read it. I think the danger is highly overstated. We've had the occasional blowout, but it's always been a failed glue joint. It's loud and inconvenient, but hardly dangerous. Of course, none of the thousand or so joints I've personally done have ever failed, because I'm meticulous with them. We've had at least a half dozen OSHA inspectors over the last 30 years. None of them squawked about our PVC air lines. I wonder what's really up with that. Seems odd to me that PVC could be rated to 200 psi or so and then explode around 80 or 90. This strikes me as the freak accident thing. The worst injury cited in your link was a broken nose. ... "PVC piping buried 3 feet underground at a Yakima manufacturing plant exploded, opening up a crater approximately 4 feet deep by 3 feet across." i dare you to cite a link or document to support this ridiculous statement. Will a document from the U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration suffice? "PVC piping buried 3 feet underground at a Yakima manufacturing plant exploded, opening up a crater approximately 4 feet deep by 3 feet across." http://www.nmsu.edu/safety/news/news..._air_lines.htm Of course, if you had asked for a RELIABLE source... Or if i had asked for documentation that was LESS THAN TWO FUKKIN DECADES OLD. Jeeeeze... steve |
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wrote in message Or one with a little detail. How big was the pipe? What was the pressure? Was this even air? Was it hit with a backhoe? This may give you a clue: "An employee in a Texas plant was injured recently by a rupture in a PVC compressed air line". |
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