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Process description
According to the Hoeganaes facility in Gallatin, TN, to the Hoeganaes corporation of
Fatal Flash Fires the process and products are leading producer of atomized steel and iron
powders with plans and high energy in everything and care about their customers and provide a
higher product for their customers too. The engineered produces the ions powder and use for the
production of a new part. This actually starts with suspected bucket elevator motor and also
happened with a similar flash fire burn another worker in Hoeganaes both men are burned and
both of them are dead. So,In this process is going through the furnace.They inject water to
atomized the steel into fine metal powders after the high furnaces molten high of the scrap steel
and to make the iron more ductile, this powders mixed the materials to make structural parts, so
when the scrap became liquid carbon molted for both and the temperature is raised as well. The
heat actually tapped to be and also the heat subsequently proceeds to the furnace to refine the
heat and the temperature. The high velocity is teamed by liquid steel and also it is going to be in
high pressure. From the powder of water, this powder is conveyed to the subsequent processes,
after the powder is annealing operation the powder is screened and going to use for packing into
the containers for shipping. When they tasted the iron dust control program from the plant
sample they take the minimum of ignition energy to determined the sources for each of the
incidents.The CSB published in the general industry of metal dust including iron dust, and
hazard the samples is collected from the plant and did not effective at the process in Gallatin.
The dust can accumulate in flat overhead surf, so the Hoeganaes facility has difficult to reach
and clean the hazard dust as in Hoeganaes facilities as requires industrial for the safety standards
for companies to follow the international result as recommended.
Ultimate Results
The first fatal incident at the Hoeganaes facility in Gallatin TN resulted in two employees
being severely burned over a large percentage of their body. Both were transported to the
Vanderbilt Burn Center in Nashville TN, and later succumbing to their injuries one passing two
days later and the other surviving four short months after the incident. This incident spurred an
investigation by the CSB, who observed, and test dust accumulated on machinery, rafters, and
the floor. Even after the findings of the combustibility tests shown all samples taken were
explosible there was no complete overhaul of the dust containment and housekeeping procedures
at the Gallatin facility.
The second incident that took place on March 29, 2011 two worked were involved, one
had escaped the area without injury and the other had been injured. The injured technician was
able to leave without server burns due to not only were personal protective equipment but also an
FRC rated jacket that protected his upper torso from the flash fire. After this incident the Gallatin
facility was visited by the local fire department, but the documented observation did not note any
combustible dust hazards only emergency egress and fire suppression.
After the May 27, 2011 incident the seen the lost of life to another two employees, one
other employee had been hospitalized for several years due to the severity of injuries, and two
employees injured but released same day from the hospital. After this incident the Gallatin
Hoeganaes facility would shut down for nearly a month to address a full plant safety review and
was forced to co-operate with Tennessee OSHA and the U.S. Chemical Safety Board to evaluate
the direct cause of the accident. After the first incident the CSB investigation noted holes in the
Hydrogen gas piping, but a full repair of the pipeline was never conducted. In total the Hydrogen
gas explosion and subsequent dust fires resulted in nearly thirty-seven million USD in damages
and cost of loss of workdays. In November 2011 Tennessee OSHA issued Hoeganaes Gallatin
Facility citations for the third incident. Fifteen OSHA PSM standard violations related to the
hydrogen gas system.
The Gallatin Fire Department (GFD) has reacted to 30 circumstances of different sorts in
the past 12 years at the Hoeganaes Corp. Including the January 31, March 29, and May 27
occurrences. In June 1999, the GFD reacted to a fire brought about by iron dust that touched off
in a baghouse. One individual endured smoke inward breath wounds. The Gallatin Fire
Department (GFD) has reacted to 30 circumstances of different sorts in the past 12 years at the
Hoeganaes Corp. Including the January 31, March 29, and May 27 occurrences. In June 1999,
the GFD reacted to a fire brought about by iron dust that touched off in a baghouse. One
individual endured smoke inward breath wounds. Every one of the 2011 incident, Hoeganaes
volunteer initially communicators thought about the injured. Hoeganaes volunteers take an
interest in yearly preparing that spreads first reaction, CPR, and medical aid. They are told to
care until GFD and EMS responders show up. Quickly following every occurrence, the
volunteers gave medical aid and solace to the harmed by applying water to cool the consumes
and covering the exploited people with a consume cover to keep them agreeable. EMS get in
shortly and transported the injured to emergency clinics.