Near Miss Incident Report OCL
Near Miss Incident Report OCL
Near Miss Incident Report OCL
Location/ Inside the printing building. Exit pathway near the loop steamer machine.
Section/
Department
04. Target of this report
Identifying the root cause and intolerable risks related to the act, operation, environment, machine or substance.
Take necessary remedial action to avoid recurrence of same incident. Take necessary disciplinary action against
violators. Raise the productivity of the business by Developing safety culture within the Organization. Protect the
workforce, company plants, buildings, equipment’s and business from the potential endanger.
On 24th April 2019 at about 3.45pm part of metal pipe line had
collapes on to the walking pathway in the printing factory. .
This part of pipe line had ejected from 15’feet height
deatached from compressed air line connected to the air
commpressure no 19 and air recever no.4. Fortunetly nobody
injurd from the incident due to nobody stayed in the area
during the incident.
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08. Injury/ Ill-health/Property damage/Lost time
Following unsafe acts and conditions recovered from the investigation which were led to this dangerous occurrence
1. This compressed air line fabricated in 2016 by Dulaj Engineering (Sub-contract Company) and following
installation lapses found.
Pipe line threaded connection was not inserted up to the expectable extent. Only five or fore thread
inserted.
Both end of pipe and pipe accessory such as elbow and joining sockets came with original thread cut by
pipe manufacture and have to cut same type or standard thread on the pipe when connecting different
length. In this fabrication some thread cut by E&M workshop and original thread was not match with the
locally fabricated thread. Evidence for above finding can be illustrated from below picture. Thread pitch
filled with glue and no sign of outer sleeve thread Crest inserting in to the pipe thread Root.
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2. According to the information get from boiler section, relevant pipe line failed from first testing due to air
leaking from most of the threaded joints. Then contactor had corrected the failure and handover project to the
boiler section. As per the available facts nobody monitored or supervise the corrective method during the
period or after the correction. As a correction method contractor has applied glue all over the connecting
joint instead of dismantle and reassembling the system with acceptable correction.
3. Also found no system install for the controlling pneumatic hammering effect or pneumatic stress to the
compress airline. Kind of stress/hammering arrester system should be install to the compressed air line
specially protecting the threaded joints.
4. Informed to subcontract company to give explanation about construction work but has not been received any
positive feedback from them so far.
Lack of procedure, policy and standard for supervising, evaluating the subcontract job standard.
Corrective action –
Dismantle the pipe system and all threaded joint converted in to welding joints.
Take all the previous job details of the contractor from the accounts Dept to find other fabrication and
major repairs done by respective subcontract company.
13. Copies
I Mr. Wen Qiyong IV Mr. Prabath Ramanayake
II Mr. Meng Ji Jie V H&S committee
III Mr. Roy Balasuriya
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