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Mr. E. A. Piersall Grand Junction, Colorado October 28, 1974 Messrs. R. J. Kronkhyte F. H. Larrison H. F. Reichard Miscellaneous Notes on King City Management Safety Audit A. General 1. The plant agreed to re-examine the question of fire reserves in the plant water storage tank. 2. E. A. Piersalt indicated he would send a noise scnnpler to King City so that further noise analysis work could be conducted. 3. Considerable progress on JSA's has been made except in the maintenance area. 4. It was presumed that there was a failure on the Southern Pacific rail line which would prevent trains from the main line being routed on to our siding, but exact details of this were unknown and should be checked out for the record. B. Personal Contacts Generally speaking, all the employees interviewed felt that the safety meetings were excellent, that management was responsive to suggestions for Improved safety and that the employees had excellent familiarity with all safety procedures, such as lock out, hazard work area permits, etc. Tony Gonzales felt that the main problem was slippery floors. Joe Beirira felt that more movies would enhance the quality of the safety meetings. Don Gamica also felt that slippery floors were a problem and made a positive suggestion which should be examined. He pointed out that water on the floor in the main plant area can easily flow under the door between the main area Mr. E. A. Plersall 2 October 28, 1974 and the bagging room creating a very slippery, potentially dangerous condition in the bagging area. One way tbat this problem has been handled in the past is to make a dam with asbestos on the floor, which obviously defeats our house keeping objectives. Garnica suggested that consideration be given to placing an appropriate barrier at the partition to prevent water from entering rite bagging loom. Garnica also Indicated that he had given up smoking, partly as a result of safety instruction at the plant. Frank de Leon also felt that the main hazard with his job was slippery floors. He Indicated that he had recently been transferred to the bagging area and that the mafor source of his training was other operators rather than supervision. Rod , the outside operator, felt that the bulk handling equipment was rather shakey and should be reinforced. Red Bailey felt that slippery floors were the most serious problem in the plant and that he had made suggestions in the past as to additional railings in the fitter press area where he previously worked. Nick Lane had no specific comments other than the observation that safety was much better at the King City plant than the oil fields wbere^be'-Wd'prevroosly worked. C. Dust Sampling In addition to the safety audit, conversations were held with Dr. Welsh and Paul McDaniel regarding the dust program at King City. Dr. Welsh requested that wo conduct a mortality study on all King City employees with more than one yew of company service by reviewing our employee records since the plant was put into operation and determining the cause of death of all deceased employees and further that we develop a proyam to maintain this information in the future. Dr. Welsh indicated that he would check with Prudential In Californio to determine if more exxbldlty data are available. in order to obtain better Individual dust sampling with a view toward being able to document each employee on a more quantitative basis in the future. It was agreed to define approximately seven representative Jobs throughout the plant. One of these fobs would involve the baggers. Each month the bagging operator and three other representative Jobs would be counted. Counting would be for sufficient duration (e.g. about four hours) to obtain a good representation of the Mr. . A. Ptersalt -3- October28, 1974 dust count variation during the course of the day. This program would con tinue for six months, at which time the data would be analyzed to determine whether this represented a meaningful and adequate sampling program. During this period, baggers would be counted monthly and the other selected jobs would be counted in alternate months. WCT/es W. C. Thurber J \ % 4 \> It- r\ ' > / i > -A y* ,1-' V'V'1 , /\. -~ -\ \, lu^V.. ^ I . T\N \ *.->" l. i -- ^' . > V V- !: i , Wa })U^ H'> C ^ ^ l; A 11 . S a- r>~ ,v G;,\^ --V, 'v^C; O _ Cv I > , f I - \/V^w'r ^ /i > ^ ,4 I -. ;, ' a, / \j\J . ' ^ vV-v>- ( L. L *. -r^-* ~~ \ m 1 \'-rL w `w V.\\ * -V ivjCl.>U \ i! '\j ^i v.y i. ^ _ r /' \/^^'X, * ---" -W.' Lr i_ \ 7 A r.\ ^ '*v- tiUvu v - 'X^- \J l- \*.\ ,, \ rC i*--- \ ^ rwr* a i ^J^r-. \j\j vUya J Ci^wy A /. ! i'-'u- ^(Lt ! /. /- -i'L u->Ay- * ^ a (a VlTTL M ''' -rVyNiC-'' ~t '>l*' I- .- {% `t} ./ V' ' ivV'y Uv~ r --Uc^ ~V^ U, *-' ~U_ Tt---- { ._,X C'.^r------\v-l-A i j -U'- _.c__ k.-'-i. ,! ^'^Vyv*vvvi a "fe,f & nn `N yv ^ \ )ci ','-^-i^ i /