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Photographs included in the Massachusetts Department of Public Safety of the erosion and corrosion of metal on boiler #3 at the SHGS are chilling. The lack of proper upkeep and responsible inspection resulted in the tragic death of three workers. This power plant is not safe - not for its workers, not for its immediate neighbors, and not for the community.
Check out the photos and the full report following the Boston Globe article below.
Anatomy of a disaster
State condemns lack of inspections at Salem power plant where 3 died in blast
By David Abel and Jonnelle Marte, Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent | August 1, 2008
For 10 years, officials at the Salem Harbor Power Station failed to carry out a crucial annual inspection, an oversight that has been linked to a boiler explosion that killed three employees last year, state officials said yesterday.
A report released yesterday by the Department of Public Safety cited extensive corrosion of tubes near an area of the boiler known as the dead air space - space within the boiler where there is no combustion.
The law requires a thorough external and internal inspection of the boiler, including the dead air space, according to the report.
"This dead air space had not been entered for 10 years, at least," said Commissioner Thomas G. Gatzunis of the Department of Public Safety. "If that's not reflective of incompetence, I don't know what is. You're supposed to look at something once every year, and you don't do it in 10 years? There's no excuse for that." Read more...
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For full report from Massachusetts Department of Public Safety report on the Salem Power Plant explosion, click here. (Photos begin on page 27.)
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