> > I received this from a company that sells safety posters and related
> > materials:
> >  =

> >  =

> > A real-life example of the consequences of ignoring safety =

> > procedures.
> >  =

> > Two workers at a Delaware refinery died recently when they tried to =

> > retrieve a roll of duct tape from what was a permit-required confined =

> > space (an oversized pipe being purged with nitrogen). When hooking =

> > the roll with a wire failed, one worker either entered the pipe =

> > willingly or accidentally fell into the pipe while reaching for the =

> > roll. He was overcome immediately by the lack of oxygen.
> >  =

> > The second worker then lowered a ladder into the five-foot-deep =

> > space, presumably to rescue his coworker. Unfortunately, he too was =

> > overcome by the lack of oxygen.
> =

> More then that too is that you can't tell when you are about to fall
> unconcious due to lack of oxygen, you only feel that need to breath when
> your body has too much CO2 in it. So if you are in an atmosphere
> deficient in oxygen, but without an excess of CO2 in it, you have *no*
> warning.
> =


It was exactly what happened here in Sweden a couple of months ago. A man =

dropped a broom into a cargo hull of a boat and was just going to climb dow=
n =

and get it. The cargo was tree products where the cellulose had consumed al=
l =

oxygen in the closed area. The man died and six more was injured trying to =

rescue him. =


/Ruben
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Ruben J=F6nsson
AB Liros Electronic
Box 9124, 200 39 Malm=F6, Sweden
TEL INT +46 40142078
FAX INT +46 40947388
ruben@pp.sbbs.se
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