All,
I have a collection of fun photos for compliance people too. However,
the sobering truth is equipment misuse (or neglect) is real, foreseeable
or otherwise. I use this photo in my training presentations,
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uyzy1chfse0g4fc/07-19-2010%20NFN%20example%20of%20foreseeable%20misuse.jpg?dl=0.
This photo was in a local newspaper and my first thought was "Can the
control panel mounting brackets withstand this more than four times the
weight of the product?" I believe these pivot sprinklers use 440VAC at
around 30 amps.
A couple of years later, on a different farm in my area, a teenage farm
girl was killed because of a equipment ground bonding problem,
http://kdvr.com/2012/07/20/larimer-county-teen-killed-in-farming-accident/.
It was an unfortunate and preventable accident. To make this a little
less theoretical, I suggest reading this,
http://www.bohlenderfuneralchapel.com/_mgxroot/page_10780.php.
I treat this topic very seriously, every time.
Doug
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