Fwd: FW: Serious Accident Communication [TANKS]

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My dad sent this to me...

Please unplug drills, screw guns and saws when changing blades and bits,
cleaning, etcetera.

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:     Dembkoski Stan J  O4  
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:00 PM
> To:   SWPC FSO Managers
> Cc:   Owens Kevin J  HRA-PGO; Ewing Bob F  HRA-PGO; Cunnard Daniel J
> SWPCEHS
> Subject:  Serious Accident  Communication
> 
> One of our employees suffered a amputation of the tip of his index finger
> on Sunday.
> 
> Preliminary investigation indicates that he was changing the ratchet drive
> mechanism of a HyTorq wrench while the unit was still energized, and the
> wrench inadvertently operated for as of yet unknown reasons, severing the
> tip of his finger. 
> 
> Please bring this incident to the attention of your personnel as a
> reminder that any power operated  tooling must be de-energized or
> otherwise rendered safe prior to performing maintenance or changes to
> components that could injure personnel if the tool could be inadvertently
> energized for any reason.
> 
> A field bulletin will be issued after our root cause investigation is
> completed.
> 
> Stan Dembkoski


 
 
  
  
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From:	michael.marmitt-at-siemens.com
Subject:	FW: Serious Accident Communication
Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:04:18 -0500

Please unplug drills, screw guns and saws when changing blades and bits,
cleaning, etcetera.

>  -----Original Message-----
> From:     Dembkoski Stan J  O4  
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:00 PM
> To:   SWPC FSO Managers
> Cc:   Owens Kevin J  HRA-PGO; Ewing Bob F  HRA-PGO; Cunnard Daniel J
> SWPCEHS
> Subject:  Serious Accident  Communication
> 
> One of our employees suffered a amputation of the tip of his index finger
> on Sunday.
> 
> Preliminary investigation indicates that he was changing the ratchet drive
> mechanism of a HyTorq wrench while the unit was still energized, and the
> wrench inadvertently operated for as of yet unknown reasons, severing the
> tip of his finger. 
> 
> Please bring this incident to the attention of your personnel as a
> reminder that any power operated  tooling must be de-energized or
> otherwise rendered safe prior to performing maintenance or changes to
> components that could injure personnel if the tool could be inadvertently
> energized for any reason.
> 
> A field bulletin will be issued after our root cause investigation is
> completed.
> 
> Stan Dembkoski

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