April 20, 2020

Theme for the month - Nitrogen related incident

An experienced contractor was used to purge a natural gas pipeline, 0.5m diameter 10 km long, with nitrogen before start-up. When one contractor employee and two customer employees entered the remotely located chamber, they were asphyxiated and later found dead in the chamber. Two blind flanges were leaking and the oxygen monitor was not used.
Source:EIGA

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