We are nothing after our death. Let us donate our body organs for the poor.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work The moment you fear, you are nobody - Swamy Vivekananda

If you think safety is expensive, try an accident... - O.P.Kharbanda

Preventable accidents, if they are not prevented due to our negligence, it is nothing short of a murder - Dr. Sarvepalli Radha Krishna, 2nd President of India

Zero accidents through zero unsafe behaviors. Do not be complacent that there are no accidents. There may be near miss accidents (NMAs). With luck/chance, somebody escaped knowingly or unknown to the person. But, we can't be safe, if we depend upon the luck.

Safety culture is how the organization behaves when no one is watching.

We make No compromise with respect to Morality, Ethics, or Safety. If a design or work practice is perceived to be unsafe, we do not proceed until the issue is resolved. - Mission statement by S&B Engineers & Consultants Ltd. http://www.sbec.com/safety/

Human meat gets least priority - A doctor's comment on accidents

CSB video excerpts from Dr.Trevor Kletz, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQn5fL62KL8

Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
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Dec 27, 2019

Plane crash during takeoff - 14 deaths, 22 injured

Plane crash during takeoff 

The aircraft during takeoff before dawn, lost altitude, broke through concrete wall, hit a two storey building, broke into two parts.
Out of 95 passengers and 5 crew, 14 persons died and another 22 persons were admitted with injuries.
The crash site is at the end of the runway.
It is unfortunate that persons lost lives, while others received injuries.
The aviation committee suspended operations of all planes of type same as that crashed.
It is stated that in general, aircraft crashes occur during takeoff or landing.



Dec 9, 2018

Boy dies in oven, after entering in it to escape cold weather

A 15 year old boy dies inside the oven, after he enters into it to escape cold weather. The oven door closes leading to the death of the boy.
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/up-gonda-teenager-boy-dies-trap-oven-biscuit-factory-1405407-2018-12-08

Similar incident occurred elsewhere. Here, four persons get trapped inside and cooked to death. From the news report, it is understood that they entered again into furnace after their cleaning work is over, did not inform anybody, did not put caution board, did not remove furnace fuse.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2113800/Metalworkers-cooked-death-inside-giant-Austrian-oven-door-closed-800C-furnace-accidentally-switched-on.html

Dec 4, 2016

Chemical reactor explosion kills one, injures three

As per news report in The New Indian Express, an explosion in a chemical reactor in a bulk drug company, caused death to a person and injuries to three persons.
The metal piece of reactor after explosion, flew by 100 meters, passed through by breaking a wall and hit the person working at distance. The person died immediately due to head injury.
The incident reveals dangers of flying fragments from explosion and need for assessment of explosion consequences.

Jan 28, 2016

Locking of emergency door leads to death in a fire incident

An explosion and fire during filling of gas cylinders led to the death of a person (apprentice) doing the work. The main door was blocked by flames. The second door was locked and could not be opened in time resulting in suffocation and burn injuries related death.


Feb 26, 2015

Explosion in detonator factory during disposing of rejected detonators from explosives

In an explosion in one of the largest explosives exporting factory, during separation of rejected detonators from explosives by cutting wires, a mechanical cutter fell down on the explosives below causing the blast leading loss of two lives and injuring 13 others with some of them receiving severe burns.
One of the injured suffered hearing loss during the incident.
The site was visited by State Home Minister, Police and other officials.
Police registered case under various sections of IPC (Indian Penal Code) for negligent act and others leading to personal harm and initiated the probe.
As per reports, the persons doing the job were retired employees as contract workers having experience.
There were also reports of demanding for shifting of the factory from residential premises.
There were some fatal incidents earlier also in the last 10-15 years.

To avoid such incidents, possibility of  automation of removal of rejected detonators needs to be explored.
As the cutter fell down below on explosives during the job, and it is likely that such slippages can happen, suitable path for shifting of material below as soon detonator is separated from the explosive material for every explosive or collecting the explosive material under water or any other medium has to be seen.
Governments have to ensure that industrial areas are well separated from residential areas. There should a sort of no habitat zone between industries and residential areas. It is natural that wherever development is there, the surroundings will see growth of residential areas with a view to gain from real estate price increase. 
Definitely, large industrial complexes would have been set up far away from residential areas at that time. Earlier remote places would have become part of the present cities due to growth. Shifting of industries also will be costly and who will foot this cost. 
Hence, a policy as suggested above is required with marked zones and no-man zones.







Jan 20, 2013

Booze + smoking = death

It is reported in a local daily news paper that a person was burnt to death while boozing in his room. It is suspected that he did not put off the lighter/match stick/cigarette due to the intake of huge quantity of liquor and this would have caused fire and death.
Lessons:

  1. Do not take liquor.
  2. If you have to, do it with others
  3. Limit your intake to your capacity, in worst case. 
  4. Keep the company of a friend/relation who will not consume liquor at all.
  5. Do not smoke.
  6. If you have to do it in the presence of a person/relation, who will not take liquor.

May 14, 2011

Fatality due to fall of tripod at construction site

A person died when a tripod kept above at a construction site for shuttering work fell down. In another accident, a drum kept at height for use as access fell down on a person causing minor head injury. Accidents like these are common at construction sites and minimum safety guidelines recommend use of safety nets, barricading the area below, posting danger signs, securing the loose items at top, supervision, etc and failure to comply with these recommendations will result in injuries and deaths at times like the first one. It is not clear whether the person died is a construction worker or not and whether he was wearing any safety helmet.

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