Man don't (I assume) Americans have any kind of training or apprenticeship before you can go on such delicate jobs?
Your stuff sounds like something a fresh outa high school guy in training would witness within the first year, the kind of stuff you have to be told only once because you always remember the picture of huge ass frames being lowered in and feets of pipe sticking out for supposedly no apparent reason.
It instantly lit up like it was made of oily rags
Well you should have carried the 30 pound steel slap up the ladder, its your fault if he now has to punish you.
Safety inspector comes out and red tags the lift herself and refused to remove the tag or allow the machine to be used. They fired her.
Let me guess she was white as snow.
Shit like that makes you wanna go find him a regulator and squirt some oil in it before handing it over to him
Now you see I am complete tech illiterate and can't grasp what that would do in detail, but then again I am not working with this stuff for that very same reason.
Trucker buddy of mine, told me also tons of horror stories and how idiots who he trained, disregarded everything he taught them and fucked around with hydrogen or extremely hot product in a way that should have taken them and according to him half the plant.
I mean as a white collar crunching numbers you don't have to know the details of a ship welders job, but a general idea of what is done around you should be present and be it just to make your own job easier.
Three things you need for fire: Fuel, air and heat. That's it. Oxygen is what the fuel needs to react to heat or maybe self combust under some sort of energy input. Just pushing atoms closer together can sometimes create combustion. As in your engine cylinders. It's the compression that does two things, first, at higher pressures there is more oxygen and also when you compress a gas the temperature that it was already at becomes concentrated as well. Say you reduce volume by ten times, well the temperature spikes up ten times hotter as well.
Or say you just have nothing but oxygen at high pressure in the presence of oil. Oil is the fuel, oxygen, well, oxidizes that fuel. In effect, burns it. All at once instantly. Oil or grease is a concentrated fuel. With high pressure oxygen you have an explosion.
Maybe nothing happens at first, right? So a guy with such a contaminated pressure regulator goes to the regulator, checks the cylinder pressure and decides he has plenty of oxygen for the cutting or burning job. Oh, but he needs to adjust the output pressure. He turns the little valve a bit to adjust it. That tiny movement sets off a massive explosion that will drive bits of metal from the regulator into the guy's chest as the front of the regulator blows out like a bomb. On every single pressure regulator for oxygen is a warning label, "DO NOT USE OIL!". Bright red, can't miss it.
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