The Locomotive . For further details and picture of the above locomotive, see TheLocomotive for January, 1922. — Editor.] Verboten is Right. IN a recent issue of the Zeitschrift of the Steam Boiler Inspectionand Insurance Company of Vienna, Austria, appears an account ofthe serious scalding of a fireman due entirely to his own thought-lessness. It was in a pulp mill, and the boiler blow-off pipe had becomestopped up, possibly by some of the pulp having gotten into the blow-off pipe was in a trench, and the fireman was in the trench,with the pipe partly dismantled and the valve remov
The Locomotive . For further details and picture of the above locomotive, see TheLocomotive for January, 1922. — Editor.] Verboten is Right. IN a recent issue of the Zeitschrift of the Steam Boiler Inspectionand Insurance Company of Vienna, Austria, appears an account ofthe serious scalding of a fireman due entirely to his own thought-lessness. It was in a pulp mill, and the boiler blow-off pipe had becomestopped up, possibly by some of the pulp having gotten into the blow-off pipe was in a trench, and the fireman was in the trench,with the pipe partly dismantled and the valve removed, poking at thepipe with a wire to try and clear it. He was directly in front of theend of the pipe, with pressure on the boiler and no valve in the he suddenly succeeded in poking through the stoppage, the fire-man, of course, was very badly scalded. The item concludes with astatement to the effect that repairing pipes in trenches (while they areunder pressure) is verboten. 1927. THE LOCOMOTIVE 249.
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