ed,
That's a real common occurrence on fishing vessels up here. Usually occurs
when refitting. I've seen several where a welder thinks a cable release
conduit in the engine room is a wiring conduit and cuts it with a torch
("...we're refitting XYZ down here, just go ahead a cut all the electrical
conduits out around it..."). My presumption is he stands down there
befuddled, wondering why there's a siren screaming for 30 seconds, then
dies a few seconds later when he can't find the ladder out. I've dealt with
four incidents over the years.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Ed Vining <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know of only one that hasn't been mentioned. In the early 1970's a
> painter accidentally tripped the manual release on a CO2 system, and was
> killed. If I remember correctly it was on a ship, and in Alaska or the
> state of Washington.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Cahill, Christopher
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > We're getting word there have been two different incidents where a fire
> > suppression system caused a death. Not a fire where the suppression
> system
> > failed but there was no fire and the system operation was somehow
> > complicit. One seems to be a high expansion foam system, the other is
> > unknown. Don't know the manner the HEF played, suffocate, fell trying to
> > leave and not being able to see, something else and HEF was a
> coincidence?
> > Ya'll hearing anything? That's about all I know, well...don't know.
> >
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