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This brings the proposed fines to over $2 million for the USPS for electrical safety. This is a huge amount for electrical safety fines.
Click to see the OSHA press release for electrical safety fines for the Scarborough, ME USPS Postal facility $443K June 2010.
Portland, OR Citation $77K June 2010.
Baton Rouge, LA Citation $97.5K June 2010.
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June 15
This news item in that on Friday 6-11-10 an NStar employee was hurt in an arc flash in a manhole in Boston, MA. Manhole incidents can be very high arc flash energies since most of these systems have higher fault currents and the circuits are often slow acting on protection if protected at all.
NStar has [...]
February 13
No life is worth more than another but sadly one of those lost in this recent plant explosion w
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January 30
“Mumbai: Along with passengers and trespassers an increasing number of railway employees are are also becoming victims of track accidents. Nearly 22 railway men including gangmen and those working on the overhead equipment wires have died in 2009.”
December 31
TVA has an excellent arc flash PPE program. The Fox News story doesn’t say if they were working on the breaker or if it just failed.
Arc Flash Training and the right PPE make huge differences in arc events.
Click here to read the Fox News Story.
Click here to read a little more detailed story but [...]
September 19
This is a free resource from the Department of Energy. It contains some of the best practices used at DOE sites. Based largely on NFPA 70E with some twists it can help build a state of the art electrical and arc flash safety program for FREE.
The link below takes you to [...]
September 16
Another mesh on the market or possibly the one that has been used but now marketed differently. This makes High Vis Arc Rated Vests more comfortable by far!
Click here to read the press release…
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September 3
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Basically an electrical contractor ignored NFPA 70E and even the OSHA standards. Did no training and provided no PPE and didn’t de-energize the equipment. OSHA fined them the maximum.
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