Safety Alert
Fatality: Cut – Off Wheel Fractures During Use
Fatality: Cut – Off Wheel Fractures During Use
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 00-34
- Hot Work and FireMachinery and Equipment
- Line of fireMechanical failure
- Grinding equipmentPersonal protective equipment
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Summary
This alert describes a fatal injury during groove cutting in cast iron using an air-powered angle grinder fitted with a cut-off wheel. The wheel fractured in use, and a large fragment penetrated the worker’s face shield and entered their face.
Classifications: Line of fire; struck-by hazards.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Grinding equipment; angle grinder; grinding wheel.
Classifications: Personal protective equipment; PPE; personal protection equipment.
Summary
The alert concerns a fatality after a cutting-off wheel fractured during use.
IADC Alert 00-34. Themes: hot work and fire, machinery and equipment.