Near Miss Incident Recall Examples

I work in the Galvanizing Department at a large galvanizing factory in Nigel. I became a safety achiever for the sole reason that I was wearing my personal protective clothing when the accident happened. 

In the Galvanizing Department, work is done in dangerous conditions and even in these conditions a very low accident rate is experienced. We galvanize different steel structures in hot zinc at the very high temperature of 460°C. 

On this particular day we were busy with a structure in a V shape. It was giving some trouble in the sense that it was picking up dross (deposit at bottom of bath) and the beam needed to be galvanized several times to get rid of the dross. 

Because of constantly dipping the structure in the zinc, it started to cool down and the cold structure in the hot zinc caused the zinc to splash the instant the beam was dipped into it. 

I wasn t fast enough to get away, but I could turn around and was only hit on the right side of my back, on my arm, on my neck, and some in my face. I was rushed to hospital and was held overnight for observation. I went home the next day. 

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