Flare explodes in recycling plant worker's hands
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Flare explodes in recycling plant worker's hands
Video - Sky News : Wed 13th Dec 2017 , 05:27, UK,
"This is the dramatic moment a marine flare exploded in the hands of a man at a recycling plant after it was left in with household waste.
People are now being urged to "think safe" when throwing out festive rubbish after the item exploded as the employee picked it from a conveyor belt at a waste treatment room in Waterbeach, Cambridge."
https://news.sky.com/story/shock-moment ... s-11168670
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Re: Flare explodes in recycling plant worker's hands
"A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle."
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Re: Flare explodes in recycling plant worker's hands
Shocking though this is, I do wonder if the chap actually pulled the activation tab, since he does seem to examine it for a few seconds.
Just goes to show that you shouldn't fiddle with strange objects, just like the couple that disturbed the old Mustard gas bombs found at the old MOD Site, previously used as a WWII Bomb Dump.
If you don't know what it is, no matter where it is - Leave the ruddy thing alone!!!
Just goes to show that you shouldn't fiddle with strange objects, just like the couple that disturbed the old Mustard gas bombs found at the old MOD Site, previously used as a WWII Bomb Dump.
If you don't know what it is, no matter where it is - Leave the ruddy thing alone!!!
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Re: Flare explodes in recycling plant worker's hands
Presumably his entire job is to poke at things in order to determine which (if any) class of recycling they belong to... For that type of role, I'm really not sure where I'd begin in putting in reasonable controls to prevent bizarre occurrences like this.bernicarey wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:10 pm Shocking though this is, I do wonder if the chap actually pulled the activation tab, since he does seem to examine it for a few seconds.
Just goes to show that you shouldn't fiddle with strange objects, just like the couple that disturbed the old Mustard gas bombs found at the old MOD Site, previously used as a WWII Bomb Dump.
If you don't know what it is, no matter where it is - Leave the ruddy thing alone!!!
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'
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The 'Reasonable Controls' would be that if you find anything you do not immediately recognise, if it has any Buttons, Tabs, Tapes or other 'something' that looks like it might make something happen, DON'T OPERATE IT!
https://www.mailspeedmarine.com/coastal ... ckage.html
Meanwhile in other Flare news, a Nova Scotia Walmart is closed after an incident...
http://gazettereview.com/2017/11/marine ... s-damages/
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Re: Flare explodes in recycling plant worker's hands
Advice on safely disposing of an out-of-date flare
Published 22 December 2017
Last updated 22 December 2017
From: Maritime and Coastguard Agency
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... date-flare
Maritime & Coastguard Agency/RNLI Disposal Locations for Marine Flares
https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ine-flares
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