Safety  Bulletin  Board

The following is the
Safety Brainstorming Committee's

and

Official Policy of Local 1439

Mission Statement

"To build a positive safety standard that our peers can
trust and believe in.  One where we collectively
demonstrate professionalism, responsibility,
and accountability for our own and each others' safety behavior
in an effort to eliminate accidents."

We are working toward a more solid safety program in

cooperation with the Blue Hats, the Jt. Safety Board and the

Safety Representatives in the field.  It is important to provide

a safe work place.  We will be having more safety meeting

at the union hall - stay tuned!

 

 

Have a Question or need to discuss a safety issue?

Here's some great people to call

 

Blue Hats:    Doug Mueller  (Cell) 314-629-8554

Barb LeBegue   (Cell) 314-852-3116              

 

Joint Safety Board:   Lisa Parr (Cell) 314-602-9132

                                       Mike White (Cell) 314-856-3878

                                        Ken Wendel (Cell) 314-971-2294

 

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Attention All Crews working for Ameren, Alliant, Entergy, City of Potosi

Here are a series of e-mails regarding an incident involivng a contractor crew yesterday, December 15, 2008.

 

Sometimes our rules are a pain. Sometimes they save a LOT OF PAIN.

Ron (Zdellar)

From: Lewis, James M
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 7:39 PM
To: Zdellar, Ronald C
Subject: Fw: LE Myer Contractor Incident 12/15/08

FYI

Jim Lewis
Managing Supervisor - Missouri Energy Delivery Safety
Office - (314) 206-0743
Cell - (314) 620-1480

From: Myers, Jeffrey H
To: Lewis, James M
Sent: Mon Dec 15 18:35:21 2008
Subject: FW: LE Myer Contractor Incident 12/15/08

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From:   Pate, Ronald D 
Sent:   Monday, December 15, 2008 5:15 PM
To:     DL IL ALT
Cc:     Myers, Jeffrey H
Subject:        FW: LE Myer Contractor Incident 12/15/08

Folks, here is a high level description of an incident occurring on our property this morning.  Although this was a contractor it could have easily been one of our trucks and our co-workers.  The line in bold says it all “PPE saves a serious injury in this incident!!”

Please share with your division personnel.  Thanks, 

______________________________________________
From:   Klein, Jason S 
Sent:   Monday, December 15, 2008 10:45 AM
To:     Barud, John P; Lemaster, Gary G; Luckett, Shanel P; Spencer, Dennis Edgar; Bauza, Kelly R; Davis, Robert G
Subject:        LE Myer Contractor Incident 12/15/08

Folks,

Today at approximately 10:00 am an LE Myers contractor crew was replacing a 3 phase pole on Old Collinsville Rd just a couple of blocks north of the Ameren IP office here in Belleville. Two men were in the 2 man bucket truck (Hi Ranger Bucket Truck) up in the air and heard a pop, they were in the process of heading back down to the ground when the bucket leveling cable broke dumping both guys out of the bucket. They both had their harnesses on and lanyards clipped in so they were hanging in the air in their harnesses. The third man on the ground operated the boom and got both guys back down to the ground. No one was injured, LE Myers has been contacted by the crew and is handling issues on their end but I wanted to inform all of you of the incident.

Good Job to the crew for wearing their appropriate PPE - PPE saves a serious injury in this incident!!

Jason Klein
Belleville Construction Supervisor
Belleville Office: 618-236-6246
Cell: 217-254-9773

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From: Mark Baker [mailto:702rep@charter.net]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 9:30 AM
To: Mark Baker
Subject: Scissor Lift Failure - Notice

Brothers and Sisters:  For those that may work on or around scissor lifts, please see the attached pdf file.  Thanks.

Mark Baker,

Business Representative

IBEW Local 702

1-618-932-2102 (office)

1-618-559-6039 (cell)

1-618-932-2311 (fax)

702rep@charter.net

 

Click on the link below to view:

images/06 Scissor Lift Failure.pdf

 

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FR Apparel Policy Variance

Ameren/UE Energy Delivery MO

FR Carhartt Bib Overalls

 

By agreement with Ron Zdellar, VP of Energy Delivery MO, employees working

under Mr. Zdellar will be granted a variance to the FR Apparel Policy.  Under this

variance, an employee may purchase and wear a FR Bib Overall manufactured by Carhartt.

This bib overall will be considered as appropriate outerwear under the FR Apparel Policy.

These bib overalls will be purchased with the employees own funds and must have

the appropriate FR label.

 

As a reminder, regular "unlined" Carhartt bib overalls may be worn provided the

upper portion of the bib overall (above the waist) is covered with a

Bulwark FR garment.

 

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Joint Safety Board

 A question has come up in the field about proper grounding of new URD cable.  According to rule 20.11.2.1.2 in all cases the terminated end of any newly installed cable shall always be grounded. 

The question is this.  A new, never been energized cable is terminated at the TP pole and everything is made up including the transformer (3 phase) terminators at the end of a radial feed.  The transformer could be a live front or dead front.  The switches are open and the high side of the switches have not been tapped to the primary.  The crew is going to leave it like this because the secondary side is not ready to be made up yet.  Is it necessary and should the crew that is leaving it this way ground the cable?  If so should it be grounded at just the TP or should it be grounded at both the TP and the transformer?  Keep in mind there could be other scenarios like the TP is terminated but the transformer isn’t, or the other way around.  Doug and I feel that both ends should be grounded.  First of all because of the way the rule reads, second there has been times that cables have come hot that shouldn’t and third the possibility of capacitance.  Please give this some thought and could you consider having Doug and I attend the next JSB meeting to discuss this.  Thanks in advance for your help.

Blue Hats

This is a near miss alert that we are sharing with everyone. Any questions please call the Blue Hats.