A fire one night
during the week of September 3, 2017 around 23:50, in an oven foundry sector of
the Trimet aluminum plant in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. It required the
intervention of thirty firefighters. An overflow of 100 kilos of molten
aluminum that caused a fire. It was extinguished with powder. The company
announced this morning that "the material damage caused relates to the
equipment of a wire machine that will require repair work". There was no
pollution or stop production. No injuries were reported.
We congratulate this
plant in preparing, planning, and reacting when the molten metal spill occurred
resulting in zero injuries. 200 kilograms of molten metal does not seem like a
large mass. But, as history has shown us no matter the volume of spill. If the
spill is not dealt with immediately it tends to flow to the lowest point. Which
commonly are beneath furnaces or equipment. We have seen all too often molten
metal flow into maintenance trenches and burn through electrical lines. We are
confident that this aluminium plant had prepared and planned beforehand on how
to respond to a molten metal spill. We hope that the equipment damage was limited
and could easily be repaired.
How will your plant
react when (not if) your plant has a molten metal spill? Have you prepared? Do
you have the necessary materials (ppe for workers, material to contain the
spill, etc) in stock?
Please comment.
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