Tales from the paper mill: International Paper Safety decided we needed to wear hiviz vests. They have one guy who's job is vibration tech at Georgetown. He goes to every bearing in the mill and uses a transducer to measure inner and outer race vibration. They do FFT frequency analysis on it and use it to predict bearing failures. One day he was on the 14th floor of the power house and set his tool bag down. As he stood up the hiviz vest pooched out and the arm hole got caught on a 1/4 turn condensate valve. As he stood up it opened and sprayed his ribs down with scalding steam. He couldn't get loose from it and it burned him pretty damn bad.

This is why you see breakaway hiviz vests with velco seams.

Also don't mount the valves so that the handle points down. See that sliding lock? it won't stop a valve from opening if it's down.

Who TF does this?

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