The FPSI™ will offer maintenance professionals a variety of resources ranging from "ready-to-post" safety bulletins; design-oversight alerts; written instruction/recommendation alerts; proper service, repair, and troubleshooting procedures, maintenance Safety Certification courses, etc.
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Description of Maintenance Safety Bulletins |
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| MSB-033 |
This recommendation for air-bleeding a hydraulic cylinder could cause severe injury, or death. |
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| MSB-032 |
A millwright with no formal training in hydraulics, suffered a non-injury accident as a result of an error made by a hydraulic distributor when crossing over a hydraulic directional control valve from one manufacturer to another. |
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| MSB-031 |
What this manufacturer of coil-tubing machines recommends about troubleshooting their hydraulic system could, in our opinion, cause severe injury, death, or substantial property damage. |
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| MSB-030 |
This manufacturer's recommendations for testing their hydraulic motor could, in our opinion, cause severe injury, death, or substantial property damage. |
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| MSB-029 |
Once again there is controversy about hydraulic systems safety. |
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| MSB-028 |
Excellent advisory about preventing worker deaths from uncontrolled release of electrical, mechanical, and other types of hazardous energy. |
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| MSB-027 |
Production Superintendent crushed to death while working on a vacuum forming mold. LOCK IT OUT!!! |
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| MSB-026 |
Oil-field service mechanic suffers a broken ankle and chest lacerations when struck by a "flying" cylinder rod that was inadvertently launched into the air using compressed air. |
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| MSB-025 |
Mill maintenance technician, with some hydraulic training, injured as a result of an accident suffered while removing a hydraulic cylinder from production to replace gland seals that were reportedly leaking. |
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| MSB-024 |
Maintenance technician burns down an entire manufacturing plant as a result of an accident caused while testing a hydraulic cylinder. |
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| MSB-023 |
Millwright suffers eye injury, minor burns, bruises, and abrasions, as a result of an accident suffered while testing a hydraulic motor. |
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| MSB-022 |
Millwright seriously injured as a result of an accident suffered while operating a portable, high-pressure hand-pump (porta-power). |
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| MSB-021 |
SAE Code 61, SAE Code 62, and Caterpillar® 4-bolt flange confusion - There are many people who think that on-the-job training for hydraulics is adequate. Here is a prime example why it simply does not work. In fact, it can leave innocent people vulnerable to severe injury or death. |
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| MSB-020 |
Accumulator Safety - ball valves and "sound" don't cut the mustard! |
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| MSB-019 |
Have a hairline crack in a steel hydraulic transmission line? Think twice before you weld it while there is oil inside!
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| MSB-018 |
Operator fatally injured while attempting to free a jammed conveyor. |
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| MSB-017 |
Mechanic's helper loses hand while attempting to remove the end-cap from a piston-type accumulator. |
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| MSB-016 |
Maintenance technicians severely injured while attempting to remove a stubborn rod-end gland from a hydraulic cylinder. |
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| MSB-015 |
Maintenance worker fatally injured after having hydraulic oil injected into hand while attempting to bleed trapped air from a hydraulic cylinder. |
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| MSB-014 |
Millwright killed while tightening a leaking high pressure connector. |
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| MSB-013 |
Diesel mechanic injured as the result of using unsafe diagnostic equipment to perform a routine troubleshooting procedure. |
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| MSB-012 |
Lock and block - it could save your life! |
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| MSB-011 |
Elevating machinery for service or repair work. |
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| MSB-010 |
Inaccuracies in manufacturer's service literature. |
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| MSB-009 |
All cartridge valves are not created equal! |
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| MSB-008 |
All hydraulic flanges are not created equal! |
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| MSB-007 |
Hydraulic Hose substitution - What you don't know may hurt you! |
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| MSB-006 |
Caution: There is a difference between O-Rings for SAE Straight Thread Tube Fittings and Standard O-Rings. |
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| MSB-005 |
Before using another porta-power read this important safety bulletin! |
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| MSB-004 |
Untrained maintenance personnel have inadvertently installed check valves in reverse - we are deeply concerned for their safety! |
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| MSB-003 |
Before setting a pressure relief valve with a porta-power read this important safety bulletin! |
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MSB-002
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Urgent safety bulletin for untrained maintenance personnel about cylinders connected in parallel. |
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MSB-001
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Is your in-line flow meter equipped with a load-inducing ball valve? Read this safety bulletin before you use it! |
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