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INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS TO DATE
Incident	Type	Date	Industry	Description of accident (if available)
Fall from platform	Fatality	1997	Emission Monitoring	Stack Tester was lifting equipment through gantry floor and pulled himself through and fell approx. 15metre
Gas exposure	Hospitalisation	1998	Emission Monitoring	Ammonia gas was emitted through sample ports during a process disturbance both team members were taken to hospital.
Fall through fragile roof	Hospital treatment	2000	Emission Monitoring	Fall through crematoria roof
Scaffold collapse	Near miss / Equipment damaged	2000	Emission Monitoring	10mtere scaffolding collapsed causing over £70K damage to equipment. Scaffolding although scaff-tagged was not tied into the stack.
CO exposure at steel works	Near miss	2000	Emission Monitoring	Control room did not know a stack team were in the location when dust catcher was dropped flooding are with large amounts of CO gas. Would have been fatal but for the quick reactions of the team leader.
Steam release by sampling platform	Near miss	2000	Emission Monitoring
Fall from ladder	Hospitalisation	2000
Fall through platform	Fatality	2000		USA, Very experienced manger of a large stack team was de-icing a platform when the floor gave way and he fell 40meters to his death.
CO exposure	Near miss	2001
Handrail collapse	Near miss	2001
Lightning strike	Near miss	2003	Emission Monitoring	Stack team up on platform when platform was struck by lightning.
Glassware dropped from platform	Near miss	2003	Emission Monitoring
Scaffold ladder breakage	Near miss	2004
Gas cylinder fall from van	Slight injury	2004	Emission Monitoring
Fall from Cherry Picker	Fatality	2007	Emission Monitoring	Italy- a stack team was on an extended cherry picker when it toppled over killing one team member and hospitalising the other.
CO Exposure/Low Oxygen	Near miss	2007
Fall with safety harness	Major Injury	2008	Construction	Safety harness not fitted correctly when person fell caused significant injury requiring major surgery
Falling Object	Miner Injury to head	2010	Emission Monitoring
Fall from cherry picker	Major Injury	2010	Construction	An operative fell from a cherry picker basket a distance of 6-8 meters on to a transformer building roof. If he fell out from the other side of the basket the drop would have been 20 m.
				The operative was undertaking work to patch up girder paint work ready for the outside cladding to be fixed.
				The driver noticed that his co-worker had fallen out of the basket on to the roof below
Collapse of lifting system	Near miss	2012	Process	Cleaning and waste materials, tools and equipment were being lowered to ground from the fourth level stack platform. The contractors had already lowered to ground four times without incident when the hoist chain snapped and the load fell around fifty feet. Two people were working at the base of the stack, near the drop zone when the load fell.
Failure of vertical ladder gate	Near miss	2013	Process	Whilst investigating a plant issue, a member of the operations team climbed the vertical ladder to HRSG21's blow down vessel upper drain platform. As he reached the top of the ladder and grabbed hold of the gate to push it open, the gate came away from its hinged point, the employee then started to fall backwards but was stopped by the still attached gate spring fully extending and grabbing hold of the circular hooped framework around the top of the ladder. The crimped joint in the gate had been forced apart by ice, this in turn had forced the top hinge out of it housing and therefore was only held in by friction on the bottom hinge. The employee was not injured in the event
Failure of lifting equipment	Near miss	2012	Emission Monitoring	The rope used for hauling equipment to the chimney platform came out of the hauling device (Petzl Protraxion) whilst equipment was being unclipped at platform. The rope fell to the ground, nobody was hit.
Equipment fall	Near miss	2013	Emission Monitoring

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Last modified: August 04, 2010