Incident probe at planned 62-turbine Vineyard Wind, a utility scale project near Nantucket Island, is underway after blade break causes floating debris and fiberglass shards to wash up on beaches, with new concern raised on July 17 about blade integrity.
On a Saturday morning in the summer of 1966, Vinton Bacon, general superintendent of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Chicago, pulled his car into a service station near his suburban home for gas and an oil check. The attendant found four sticks of dynamite wired to the car’s engine. Only a faulty connection prevented them from exploding.
A commentary that says too often, when we investigate safety incidents, we focus on the immediate cause and not the “root cause.” They aren’t the same thing.