[AT] smoking/gas bottles

[Chris Britton]

>From: DAVIESW739 at aol.com
>Subject: Re: [AT] Re: how  NOT to adjust your baler
>I saw a kid smoking today while leaning up against a  cage full of propane
>bottles full and otherwise I guess. I ask him if he got his  IQ out of
>Crackerjacks box. then I looked at my sor hand and I new just how he  felt.

While we all try to avoid doing those 'life limiting' moves.. I think the 
guy leaning up against the gas bottles was a tad safer than reaching into a 
moving bailer.  Gas and air mix has to be at a certain level before 
explosion.  with the addition of stench.. you will (should) know when it's 
getting unsafe.

We run into alot of gas issues doing underground utilities.  Working in a 
trench poses extra hazards witht he gas pooling, than working on flat open 
ground.

Still.. it just doesn't look good anyway.. and I'm sure an osha inspector 
would faint seeing a guy smoking next to gas equipment... makes ya wonder 
what they are teaching kids in school these days... sure isn't common sense.


Soundguy