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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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