Near Miss at Chennai Metro Rail: How Did We Avoid a Major Accident?

Major Near Miss at Metro Rail Project in Chennai

A major near miss occurred on Thursday (26.07.12) at the Metro Rail Project in Chennai, resulting in no personal injury. "A major accident was averted as the scaffolding to build a 15-feet-long pier arm on one of the pillars on the busy 100-feet road at Vadapalani collapsed when liquid concrete was being poured into it on Thursday afternoon."

Please go through the attachment and video for details. If anyone manages to get the detailed investigation report of this incident, please share it.

Regards,

Dear Dipil, Thanks for sharing the information with us. I will check with some friends who are working on metro projects. If I receive any info on this matter, I will share it with you all. The only good thing is that no injuries were reported, thank God.

If they go through an investigation, they will say, "They did not follow the proper installation method. It's not installed or maintained by a competent person, poor design, etc." They need to understand it's all preventable.

They hire safety personnel for that project without experience (because of budget). I'm not saying we are experienced, but at least we know what we want to do. Most accidents happen due to management and senior managers failing to prepare a budget for the projects. You should ask your top management regarding the safety budget, as it is the lowest in all projects. Management is supposed to think and ask senior managers; senior managers are supposed to explain everything instead of saying at the last minute that we don't have a budget.

I promise, as a safety guy, that they (Metro project guys) are getting trouble from the factory inspectorate. Now they will dig into everything: where is your plan, when it was approved, where is your monthly report, quarterly report, training documents, certificates for everything. But I don't know why our factory inspectorate is always 'RE-ACTIVE'???