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Rumor behind Federal primer packaging

I don't know if it was a UPS driver but there was a report of an accident with Federal primers which resulted in an explosion and led to the new packaging. No other company went along with it. This took place in the late 1980's, as I recall. Now, as to whether this was an attempt to get ahead of any repercussions from an accident, or it was a pre-emptive move by a company safety advocate (nanny), I can't honestly say. I could dig through my old Precision shooting mags, but that just ends up with me wasting a day reading old articles while forgetting what I was looking for. WH
 
I do know a fellow that had a Lee disk primer thing that exploded (?) and burned his hand. I don't know the circumstances...but in his army days, he lost the skin off both palms loading a mortar. Maybe just good at getting injured by heat?

With the price of primers, I'm expecting individual packaging soon, like jewlery.
 
I was told that the government agency that regulates shipping(DOT ?) was mandating the change and Federal did it before the deadline but then industry push back got it canelled and Federal stayed with the new packaging. No idea it it's true.
 
Many years ago I took the bull by the horns and called Federal, and asked them the reason for the then new packaging. The fellow I spoke with told me that in their warehouse a forklift driver had run a fork into a crate of primers setting them off. This came under some sort of federal department which required the package design, but it only applied to the company that had had the problem.
 
BoydAllen said:
Many years ago I took the bull by the horns and called Federal, and asked them the reason for the then new packaging. The fellow I spoke with told me that in their warehouse a forklift driver had run a fork into a crate of primers setting them off. This came under some sort of federal department which required the package design, but it only applied to the company that had had the problem.
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Most likely an OSHA investigation. You have to do a root cause analysis for the cause and then come up with a fix so that it doesn't happen again. The company and OSHA have to sign off on the investigation and pay whatever fine OSHA comes up with.
 
ebb said:
Forklift driver in the Federal plant knock over a pallet full of primers and they exploded and the consensus was that the new packaging would never allow it to happen again. I am skeptical.
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I haven't studied primer packaging designs, but I have designed airbags to bounce expensive equipment across the rocky surface of Mars.

To expand a bit on what I suspect ebb already knows:

Bottom line: these things are based on guesses and probabilistic models. Only lawyers and safety auditors use silly absolutist language like "would never allow it to happen again". There will always be a more extreme case and your competitors will always get away with riskier practices than you. That's just how it goes.
 
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