A safety reminder for the protection of the workers. The danger of mismatched hammer unions

Happy Labor Day to everyone. Best wishes to you and your family for a great holiday weekend.

We want to especially thank our oil and gas workers for working so hard to make our country energy independent. They have a great force behind our current economic recovery.

As a contribution to the health and safety of our workers, we want to remind everyone of the recurring issues associated with the failure of flowline and temporary pipe installations at hydraulic fracking sites and other oil & gas production sites. Based on our forensic investigations, quite a few of these releases have been caused by the failure of hammer unions or hammer joints.

The danger of mismatched hammer unions

Hammer unions are connectors for flowline and temporary pipe installations. Property damage, injury and environmental release reports continue to come in involving pressurized lines and the unions used on these lines. Workers have been observed mismatching unions. In addition, workers have been observed hammering on lines while still under pressure. Several accidents within the industries that use these unions, including fatalities, have occurred due to pressurized lines being improperly connected or being hammered on while under pressure.

To read more, please use this link:

https://sites.google.com/site/metropolitanforensics/cause-and-contributing-factors-of-failure-of-temporary-pipe-and-flowline-connections-at-fracking-sites

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