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Pinched Pipe Scaffold
Date of Incident: 29 November 2024
Description:
A pre-shut scaffold was assembled between two steam pipelines (RC1 and RC2) in the steam field east of Te Mihi. The scaffold was constructed with a gap of approximately 300mm between the pipelines. However, this gap was insufficient to account for the total shrinkage when one of the pipelines was isolated early and allowed to cool. As a result, the lagging on both pipelines was damaged, a scaffold kick board snapped, and there was minor damage to a cable tray.
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