Aluminium Plant Safety

The Aluminium Plant Safety blog informs about accidents and near misses that occur in aluminium plants, cast houses, foundries, smelters, etc. that are around the world. Dust, molten metal steam explosions, fires, moving vehicles accidents, etc. will be covered. It is not this blog's intention to place blame on either company nor worker(s), but the hope that awareness of these accidents brings education and prevention of recurrence.

Thursday, December 31, 2020

"pronounced her dead there..." UPDATE


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Labels: Death, forklift truck, Moving Equipment

Monday, December 28, 2020

"Four workers...fell sick after a suspected gas leak"

 

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Labels: chemicals, evacuation, inhalation, Injury

Thursday, December 24, 2020

"It shook everything!"

 

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Labels: burns, Explosion, Furnace, Injury, Molten Metal, Scrap

Sunday, December 20, 2020

"search and rescue and assisting employees out of the building..."

 

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Labels: Dust, evacuation, Fire, machinery

Thursday, December 17, 2020

Workers with 85%, 60%, and 60% burns on their bodies.

 

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Labels: Aluminium powder, burns, Explosion, Fire, Injury

Sunday, December 13, 2020

"deflagration when filling a boiler....Eight employees injured "


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Labels: Explosion, Injury, Molten Metal, Scrap

Thursday, December 10, 2020

"fell from a height of around 90 feet ...."

 

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Labels: Death, fall, fall from height

Sunday, December 6, 2020

"lost his life after falling from about 3 meters....."

 

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Labels: Death, fall from height

Thursday, December 3, 2020

"More than a half-dozen fire trucks responded..."

 


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Labels: Aluminium Dust, Fire

"was entangled and killed by a machine...."

 


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Labels: Death, lathe, machine guarding, machinery

Monday, November 30, 2020

lucky to be alive.....

 

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Labels: Fire, transportation

Thursday, November 26, 2020

"both were rescued, with burns on the upper limbs and faces.."

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Labels: burns, Injury, Molten Metal

Sunday, November 22, 2020

" Covid-19 has infected 19 people at a factory..."

 

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Labels: COVID, COVID-19

Thursday, November 19, 2020

""liquid aluminum ... started leaking from the furnace into the basement"

 

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Labels: evacuation, Fire, Furnace, Molten Metal

Sunday, November 15, 2020

"worker has third degree burns on 25% of his body"

 

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Labels: burns, Explosion, Injury, Molten Metal

Thursday, November 12, 2020

"the damage will be close to a million....”

 

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Labels: Fire, hydraulic, machinery

Sunday, November 8, 2020

36 firefighters struggled with fire caused by molten metal spill

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Labels: Fire, flammable liquid, Furnace, hydraulic, Molten Metal, spill

Thursday, November 5, 2020

"two employees received an electric shock (one died)"

 

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Labels: Death, electrocution, Injury, potroom

Sunday, November 1, 2020

"he was showing safety managers malfunction of the machinery that caused his death"

 

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Labels: Death, machine guarding, machinery

Thursday, October 29, 2020

A (molten metal) spill causes a fire....

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Labels: Fire, Furnace, Molten Metal, spill

Sunday, October 25, 2020

"placing his head under a....."

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Labels: Death, machine guarding, machinery, mental health

Thursday, October 22, 2020

"Crane worker...escaped (flames) and fell three meters..."


 

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Labels: crane, fall from height, Fire, Injury, magnesium

Sunday, October 18, 2020

"70 emergency services personnel responded to fire....."

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Labels: Fire, Fire Extinguisher, Furnace

Thursday, October 15, 2020

"roof collapsed and one of the 94 firefighters was buried..."

 


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Labels: Fire, Furnace, Injury

Sunday, October 11, 2020

"The fire brigade was on site with a total of 45 firefighters..."

 

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Labels: aluminium shavings, Fire

Thursday, October 8, 2020

"30 tons of mag and aluminium alloy ....exploded violently"


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Labels: Fire, magnesium

Monday, October 5, 2020

"man lost several fingers on both hands and received severe burns"

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Labels: burns, electrocution, Injury, potroom

Thursday, October 1, 2020

"killed after a fall close to ten meters"

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Labels: Death, fall from height, Fall Hazard

Sunday, September 27, 2020

"it may take more than 90 days for complete extinguishing"

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Labels: Aluminium powder, Fire

Thursday, September 24, 2020

"killed ...when a large aluminum coil fell"

 

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Labels: Death, Moving Equipment

Monday, September 21, 2020

"the incident wasn't even that big"

 

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Labels: Fire, Scrap

Sunday, September 13, 2020

casthouse is destroyed...3 dead, 4 injured.

 

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Labels: Death, Explosion, Injury, Molten Metal

Thursday, September 10, 2020

"fire was finally extinguished after more than four hours...."

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Labels: Aluminium Dust, Aluminium powder, Fire

Sunday, September 6, 2020

"semi-trailer on fire as it was driving south ...."

 

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Labels: Fire, transportation

Thursday, September 3, 2020

fire...."involved a broken hydraulic pipe"

 

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Labels: Fire, flammable liquid, hydraulic

Thursday, August 27, 2020

"Luckily the diesel tank (20,000 L) did not explode"

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Labels: Fire, flammable liquid

Sunday, August 23, 2020

"man who died .... was electrocuted"

 

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Labels: Death, electrocution

Thursday, August 20, 2020

"As a result, two employees.... were hospitalized."

 

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Labels: chemicals, chlorine, inhalation, Injury

Sunday, August 16, 2020

"removing the body .... took about two hours"

 

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Labels: Death, machine guarding, machinery

Thursday, August 13, 2020

" rubbish at the back of a pre-heat furnace....ignited"


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Labels: Fire, Furnace, housekeeping

Sunday, August 9, 2020

"the fire broke out in the melt/cast area in one of the buildings"


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Labels: Fire

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Two directors and one manager charged with gross negligence manslaughter



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Labels: court case, Death

Sunday, August 2, 2020

"a fire had broken out in three different sections of a furnace...."


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Labels: Fire, Furnace, hydraulic

Friday, July 31, 2020

"Four items, similar to ammonite bombs, got to the plant..."

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Labels: explosives

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

"That is dangerous...."



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Labels: Aluminium Dust, Aluminium powder, Fire

Wednesday, July 1, 2020

77 Workers (in one aluminium plant) test positive....


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Labels: COVID, COVID-19

Sunday, June 14, 2020

"4 injured in .... explosion, roof collapse"



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Labels: Explosion, machinery

Thursday, June 11, 2020

"Aluminum comes flying out of transport truck and into live traffic...."


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Labels: transportation

Saturday, May 23, 2020

extrusion plant has 26 workers with COVID-19...

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Labels: COVID-19, Injury

Saturday, May 16, 2020

"At least three were killed when a cylinder exploded...."


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Labels: compressed gas, Death, Explosion, Injury
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