Explosion, 1 Dead

[KBM]

Heard about it shortly after it happened, was on our boiler across the lake from y’all when I heard the news. Prayers up for the family/men involved

[Pedernal]

Prayers up for the folks involved and their families.

[sqiggy]

Dang we didn’t need to loose any more coal generation plants.

We didn’t. Our 2 units are still up and running.

[Oldblue]

Prayers up.

[Killer]

Oh I thought the start up gas boiler blew up and took the coal plant out too. No affect on them?

[PondPopper]

No, it’s 2 coal fired plants. Right in the middle of the 2 units is the Aux boiler, a small boiler that is ran off gas. They use the Aux boiler to help bring up the big units when they go off line. They completely gutted it and had rebuilt it. Were in the middle of commissioning it, which means starting it up and making sure everything is working correctly.

WOW sad deal.. Horrible.
Bad flame sensors(fire eye)or faulty gas valve or what??
With all of the safety features a boiler should have these days something went bad wrong.

[sqiggy]

WOW sad deal.. Horrible.
Bad flame sensors(fire eye)or faulty gas valve or what??
With all of the safety features a boiler should have these days something went bad wrong.

My first night back and the boss took me on a tour. I asked the same thing. There wasn’t any alarms going off???
What he told me, while they were attempting to fire it up, the flame sensor maybe wasn’t working properly while the whole time natural gas was filling up the boiler. Where it blew out is where the guy was standing. I was told he was 50 years old and from Georgia and came on this job strictly for commissioning. Also learned that a group of insulators had just crawled out from underneath the boiler a few minutes before.
Yeah, something terrible went wrong. There’s a family in Georgia that’s about to get rich.

[PondPopper]

My first night back and the boss took me on a tour. I asked the same thing. There wasn’t any alarms going off???
What he told me, while they were attempting to fire it up, the flame sensor maybe wasn’t working properly while the whole time natural gas was filling up the boiler. Where it blew out is where the guy was standing. I was told he was 50 years old and from Georgia and came on this job strictly for commissioning. Also learned that a group of insulators had just crawled out from underneath the boiler a few minutes before.
Yeah, something terrible went wrong. There’s a family in Georgia that’s about to get rich.

All of the boilers I have worked with had numerous fire eyes(4-6)and if any read bad the gas valve would not open and I also paid close attention to the O2 sensors..
It doesn’t take much for one to become a huge bomb..
Yea lawyers are lining up..

[sqiggy]

Not sure how this one is set up but pretty sure it has one burner and being it’s a start up boiler, it’s small. But it looked like it damaged the whole thing. Probably have to start all back over again from demolition to complete rebuild. That alone is some serious coin.
Now I heard for the first time that the procedure for start up is nobody is supposed to be within 50 feet of it. There were several other people standing there, but luckily they were on the opposite side from where it blew.

[BRUTE 23]

Is there really a need to be standing by one or to be under it while starting it?


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[DaveC]

Explosion, 1 Dead

Sad to read, I heard a news break blip about it yesterday so then looked it up. Not much online about it.

We had and aux/ fired boiler that when lighting we would stand behind an I-beam in in fear of it going poof.

It blew a tube on me one night when bringing it up, that was scary enough. I’d hate to see what a gas side pop looks / sounds like.

That POS got cut up and hauled out about 10 years ago. And thank God for that.
What a Piece of Junk. Made many a welder plenty of ot $$ trying to keep it going after numerous and constant tube leaks.


Sorry to read of the loss of the Georgia man.


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[sqiggy]

Is there really a need to be standing by one or to be under it while starting it?


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Being that this was a complete tear down and rebuild, apparently something was going on that had this person where he was, but no, under normal start ups, usually a operator is close by making sure things are kicking on as should.
Being that this is still under investigation, I don’t know a lot and most of what I’m hearing is speculation. After seeing it first hand, that plant is lucky only one got killed.

[PYBUCK]

I would bet that when the final investigation is complete, someone had bypassed a safety shutoff because they were having problems getting it started and thought the readings they were getting were false.