Content tagged with "fires"
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Article
October 12, 2004
Preventing welding-related fires
In 2002 in Irving, Texas, 1.4 percent of the city's residential fires and 10 percent of its commercial fires were welding-related. These and welding-related fires elsewhere probably could have been prevented if welders had been more diligent in adhering to safe welding practices. Before... Read more...
Article
June 27, 2002
Welder, beware
Last June a spark from a welding torch started a 15-acre fire in Lake Piru, Calif. Welders working inside the Chicago Theater in September called the fire department after a welding torch ignited debris between the walls. In November welding sparks ignited rags on a workbench near an employee... Read more...
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