Safely handling steel coils
It has been reported by news media that in Ohio, last week, an employee died of injuries sustained when a large steel coil apparently fell on the employee. Our thoughts and prayers are certainly with his family, friends, and co-workers. This incident made me think; are there companies that have a written safety protocol in place for the safe handling of these large steel coils, some exceeding 10,000 lbs.? If so, such a protocol could certainly be beneficial to Safety Knights who work in companies that handle these large steel coils. Just think of the number of times you have traveled our roadways in this great country and have seen flatbed trailers with these large steel coils as cargo. Someone has to move those coils and move them safely.
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https://www.minster.com/services/safety/request-literature
: Minster Power Press Safety Manual, No. 805E
Sounds like some serious rigging and crane operation is needed for handling those. Generally we would outsource any sort of major unloading for stuff that big
We don't move steel coils but we work with steel bars and tubes that weigh hundreds to thousands of pounds. We stress the importance of safe crane operating. We have our own crane safety rule specific to our location and i conduct the hands on training. Our employees are not afraid to call an employee out for unsafe use of cranes which is great. They realize the importance of operating safely and that a mistake can hurt them even if they aren't operating.
Do you have a link to the article? We work with wire rope where the coils can weigh 30,000 lbs.
We currently don't have a SOP.