[time-nuts] Man killed in quartz crystal accident

Marv @ Home marvin.gozum at comcast.net
Sun Nov 24 09:29:39 EST 2013


If anyone wishes to see what that plant looks like since then, 
there's a very clear satellite photo on google map showing the 
damaged building unrepaired, if you select the 45 deg angle view 
you'll get more details:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=NDK+Crystal+facility&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&ei=-QmSUuvuPKGzsASj2IDIBg&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAg


Not sure how old it is since 2009, but its clearly post accident.

At 08:14 AM 11/24/2013, time-nuts-request at febo.com wrote:
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>Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 07:43:08 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Robert Atkinson <robert8rpi at yahoo.co.uk>
>To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
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>Subject: [time-nuts] Man killed in quartz crystal accident
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>The US Chemical Safety Board have released their report into the 
>2009 accident at NDK's synthetic crystal growing facility in 
>Belvidere IL < 
>http://www.csb.gov/assets/1/19/CSB_CaseStudy_NDK_1107_500PM.pdf >
>It also describes the process.
>
>Basically a 50ft autoclave failed, killing a member of the public at 
>a rest stop 650ft away. Looks like management decisions, probably 
>based on cost, overriding engineering advice even following an 
>earlier minor incident. The letters from a consulting engineer in 
>the annex make interesting reading. It illustrates the importance of 
>those professional engineers amongst us notifying and recording any 
>safety issues we discover. The facility is still shut down and the 
>insurance company won't settle as NDK were told of possible issues.
>
>Robert G8RPI.



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