BRPP U-2 Dropped Load

Near-Miss Incident September 29, 2012

Investigation Results and Lessons Learned

An example of a new Secondary Superheater

tube pendent

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NOTE: the access door cut in the side of

Unit 2 Boiler

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Tugger/load

transfer

begins here

The tugger hook used. Note the broken safety

latch and side load distortion of the hook….

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The boiler access door from the inside, looking

west. Contractors ran toward the west

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Mangled scaffold planks laying in the east

bottom ash hopper

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Superheater tube bundle slid through the bull nose

into the bottom ash (landed on the east apex)

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An eye swivel replaced the hook

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