Gale Hawkins
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No Death but Serious Accident.
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Toyboy
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There should have been a lock out tag on the start switch of the machine when it was being serviced.
MossRoad
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Yep. You bet I'd be putting my lock on that machine and taking my key with me if I had to work on it. Yikes! However, it sounds like the guy is going to recover and has a great attitude. Hope he makes it. :thumbsup:
2LaneCruzer
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I agree. If it had been a true wood chipper, there wouldn't have been anything left bigger that a tennis ball.
dodge man
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Yeah, if OSHA took a look at that accident, they would write them up big time. It sounds like they did it all the time but a lock out tag should have been used. Its a pain to mess with that stuff all the time but................
cqaigy2
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Man, i agree, it might be a pain, but....
Taylortractornut
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Depends on the type of debater. Some are wheel type peelers some use flail chains. It's a scary feeling, I was 21 I was an operator and mechanic on a job. My trackloader had a leak in the belly pan so I pulled my mechanic truck to it. I locked out and tagged out with a Komatsu supplied lock. I had locked the ignition and transmission control out. I was under the machine using an impact wrench and saw some boots go past the track rollers. All of a sudden I hear the engine start and the machine reversed tries to turn.
I had run my air hose through the rollers to reach the plates I was removing. When the line cut it made enough noise that the seat attendant stopped. When I got out I tried to kill the operator with a breaker bar. He was a young laborer that wanted to be an operator. He borrowed a key from the office thinking about getting on a parked machine. He was clueless that the truck with the big loud compressor running, red tags locks were in place for a reason. We had just had a safety meeting on this the day before. All I could think about was being smashed by a 20 ton loader. I got the privileged of firing the laborer for stupidity. After that if I locked something out I used my own locks and often a helper
I had run my air hose through the rollers to reach the plates I was removing. When the line cut it made enough noise that the seat attendant stopped. When I got out I tried to kill the operator with a breaker bar. He was a young laborer that wanted to be an operator. He borrowed a key from the office thinking about getting on a parked machine. He was clueless that the truck with the big loud compressor running, red tags locks were in place for a reason. We had just had a safety meeting on this the day before. All I could think about was being smashed by a 20 ton loader. I got the privileged of firing the laborer for stupidity. After that if I locked something out I used my own locks and often a helper