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bdkw1 said:
74 year old white female “true believer” electric car owner. The car just went crazy! No lady, you hit the accelerator instead of the brake. Say goodbye to your drivers license
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2023-25 Honda Accord. Hybrid at most.
 
Penetrode Offroad said:
:lmao:

We get a bunch of shit if the roof has a small drip near one of our molten iron furnaces. I agree, fuck chemical safety and all that shit.

"I would like to learn process safety management, but that's kind of hard not being in that industry" explain please.
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It deals with highly hazardous chemicals and you map out the system to identify what valves need to be closed, what LOTO needs to be done to prevent shit from mixing and exploding. I grossly simplified that, but here is some light reading: https://www.osha.gov/process-safety-management

It's actually pretty interesting stuff if you are even remotely interested in systems.
 
Pretty sure it's never seen a dirt road...
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M92PV4U said:
What kind of retarded motherfucker makes it mandatory to have water based fire suppression system in a part of the factory that produces chemicals that are violently reactive to water :shaking:
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Our insurance company required us to install sprinklers throughout the plant this year.

It's a titanium plant. Water will only make the fire worse :shaking:

Don't underestimate the stupidity of bean counters.
 
It's cool we're insured for lost production :laughing:
When we had the big explosion back in 2015 my furnace was down for an entire year for repairs. I can't even begin to image how many millions that cost the ins co. Definitely in the hundreds.


We had that dust collector burn down about a month ago and the sprinklers never went off :lmao:

We got them to not install the sprinklers next to the furnace chambers, but they're still right next to all the water pumps, vacuum pumps, hydraulics pumps, switch gear, etc. Also in the control room, which will be fun because of all the proprietary electronics.

Personally I'd be more worried about the other department (Raw Materials). Last time we had a big fire over there (10-12 years ago) the building columns melted from the heat :eek:
 
reptillikus said:
It's cool we're insured for lost production :laughing:
When we had the big explosion back in 2015 my furnace was down for an entire year for repairs. I can't even begin to image how many millions that cost the ins co. Definitely in the hundreds.


We had that dust collector burn down about a month ago and the sprinklers never went off :lmao:

We got them to not install the sprinklers next to the furnace chambers, but they're still right next to all the water pumps, vacuum pumps, hydraulics pumps, switch gear, etc. Also in the control room, which will be fun because of all the proprietary electronics.

Personally I'd be more worried about the other department (Raw Materials). Last time we had a big fire over there (10-12 years ago) the building columns melted from the heat :eek:
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Were you storing jet fuel in there?
 
Old job had a dust collection system for a laser engraver catch fire one night on second shift. Smoked up the entire shop, 40k sq ft. They had been changing out the filters but somehow it accumulated enough somewhere and it lit off. :eek:
 
87manche said:
Were you storing jet fuel in there?
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:lmao:

It was the wash line that went up (where you wash titanium chip to remove cutting fluid and other contaminants).

The only thing more flammable than titanium, is titanium chip & dust. Since it was the wash line, that means there was several tons of titanium chip nearby waiting to be processed.

Melted is a bit of an exaggeration; We had to replace that whole corner of the building because the beams in the roof were sagging, the main building columns were warped, and some of the smaller ones for the dividing wall for the wash line melted. The floor was fully covered with 1/2" steel plate and that was all melted away as well. Someone ran back in and yanked the propane bottle off the fork truck that was back there, since there was no way of getting it out of the building with it engulfed in flames.



There's been some wild incidents over the years, but for the most part the plant is pretty safe.
 
Wades_76_cj7 said:
Old job had a dust collection system for a laser engraver catch fire one night on second shift. Smoked up the entire shop, 40k sq ft. They had been changing out the filters but somehow it accumulated enough somewhere and it lit off. :eek:
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Dust collectors are no joke! They work great, but if you catch one on fire look out :eek:
 
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