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SAFETY REPORT SOCOI'JY- VACUUM (WHITE EAGLE) Refinery at Casper,Wyoming November 6, 1936 Party Contacted - Hr, P. D. Cunningham, Assistant Supertindent, General Safety Provision Th only printed instruction that Hr. Cunningham could find in files 79 9 a booklet titled," Accident Prevention Hanual" They had onlv part one which delt entirely with 3erv` ce station work. This book was datteed Cecember 1, 1931 and was issued by the Standard Oil Company of Now York, They could find no other orinted instr -ctions on safety. I suggested that they write their home office for information. Sine above book was marked part one there are surely other^ parts that deal with refineries. r. C. P. Burfyrd of their Kansas City office has complete charge of safety work. prepares bulletins on safety and conducts meetings at various times. It is up to hr. Glass and Hr. Cunningham to see that instructions are fo lowed. Apparently he issues verbal instructions. C '~eral safety meetings are held at the refinery at irregular intervals. Tank Cleaning They have had no occasion to clean gasoline storage tanks but e following procedure 'would be followed. Hr. Jam Humphrey, general foreman, would select a skilled man to act as gang foreman. They can not tc-l at this time whom It would be He would select a crew of from 2 to 4 men from yard gang to do work. Tanks vould be steamed until gas free as shown by the use of a Burell Gas Indicator, end then allowed air until cool. If tank hod contained 1 del gasoline our instructions, with which Hr. Cunningham is familiar. rould be followed. If the tan!: had n~t contained leaded gasoline the men would work with out masks unless conditions were dusty in which case filter masks only would be used. Air line masks would be worn only In cases where it was impossible to free tanks of gas. If scrapping of scale necessary it would be done in a dry condition using non-sparking tools and filter masks. In case of leaded gasoline scale v/ould be removed in.wet condition according to our instructions. For. non-lea "c gasoline tanks the question of clothing would be up to the employees vith the exception of rubber b 'to which would b 1 worn at all times. Conclusion N22714