Tag Archives: machinery extrication

There are a lot of moving parts, belts, and chains that create potential for entrapment. Short video and a couple pictures below.

This air kit is set-up to work off our Ajax chisel regulator and hose.  All we did was get the right size connections for the Ajax hose.  These tools run at 90 PSI and the box needs labeled for those 2 am calls. One challenge these days is that different pneumatic tools run at different pressures: i.e. airbags: 118 psi, ...

Andrew Brassard sent this simple machinery extrication drill over. Brass said if you google "hand stuck in shredder" you will see it happens quite frequently... along with all sorts of other things.

October is alway a busy month with fire prevention activities, so here are a few topics to get your training geared back up. Ultimately, we have to expect fire, expect entrapments, and expect to break stuff. There are a bunch of links throughout this post to help with a company drill or table top discussion.