PVC airline explosion - pictures
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Kellyblues
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^ ^ ^ Thanks for sharing your expertise with GJ . . . glad KellyBlues is here !!
Thanks and glad to be here
Kellyblues
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Thank you very much for sharing the story and providing pictures. Pvc gets brittle the older it gets. The more its heated and cooled the faster it happens. Add different kinds of light and it adds to it deoending on what type of pvc it is.
Im glad its getting replaced and you get to see it first hand. I've seen it also. Only takes seeing it once to make a firm believer out of ya for sure.
HoosierBuddy
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Reading from several posters that they work in shops with PVC air lines...just an FYI especially if you are in management over one of those shops.
OSHA has jurisdiction over anyone that has employees in the United States.
OSHA doesn't allow PVC to be used for compressed air.
If a worker feels their employer is not providing a safe work environment, I would suggest they bring those concerns to management and give them a legitimate chance to correct the issues brought forward. Heck, I'd give them a few chances.
If that doesn't work, there's always this:
https://www.osha.gov/as/opa/worker/complain.html
They'll have to replace the air lines then and may face a fine...but sometimes that may be what it takes to prevent a catastrophe.
Good luck everyone!
Phil
p.s. Here's a link where OSHA made this determination in 1988.
https://www.osha.gov/dts/hib/hib_data/hib19880520.html
OSHA has jurisdiction over anyone that has employees in the United States.
OSHA doesn't allow PVC to be used for compressed air.
If a worker feels their employer is not providing a safe work environment, I would suggest they bring those concerns to management and give them a legitimate chance to correct the issues brought forward. Heck, I'd give them a few chances.
If that doesn't work, there's always this:
https://www.osha.gov/as/opa/worker/complain.html
They'll have to replace the air lines then and may face a fine...but sometimes that may be what it takes to prevent a catastrophe.
Good luck everyone!
Phil
p.s. Here's a link where OSHA made this determination in 1988.
https://www.osha.gov/dts/hib/hib_data/hib19880520.html
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Doug1
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The Rapid Air Maxline is the way to go. Metal, coated with plastic and rated for burial. Since it is aluminum, you don't have to deal with rusting issues. I've been very happy with it. I ran it over 100 ft underground to my shop in the back. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it.
TheEquineFencer
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Personally, I just went to HF and bought a couple of 100 ft rolls of 1/2 inch airline, two 50 ft hose reels, a water separator and bought a brass T fitting. I put a a reel at the front of the shop and one at the rear. I zip tied the airline so it was up hill as long as I could then down to the reels with a drop at the reel and pull air from the top and have a drain at the bottom. 300 PSI ait line. It was the safest, cheapest, easiest way I could think of to do it. When I cut the air compressor off the separator drains itself.