Another Wire Rope Breakage Accident: 2 People Died

2023-07-14

Recently, at a construction site in Hohhot, China, an wire rope broke when the tower crane was hoisting goods, and the falling goods killed two workers on the spot.

 

After confirmation, the reason for the accident was that the crane company did not perform daily maintenance, the steel wire rope was damaged and broken without safety inspection before use. At present, the construction site has been ordered to stop production for rectification, and the aftermath disposal work has been fully carried out.

 

1. Wire rope detection is highly necessary

 

Construction operations are inseparable from various types of lifting and transporting equipment, and wire ropes, as an important part of such mechanical equipment, play an important role.

 

However, problems such as wear and aging of steel wire ropes have brought certain safety hazards to the construction and operation of the construction site. Therefore, maintenance and inspection work is a necessary measure to ensure the daily safe and stable operation of tower crane wire ropes, and the application of wire rope flaw detection systems is becoming more and more important.

 

2. Previous wire rope detection methods

 


 

Visual detection method is a traditional method commonly used today, mainly through the direct sense of maintenance personnel, observation, touch or simple measurement, to find problems in the wire rope. However, manual visual inspection of steel wire ropes has many disadvantages. Such as only find the outside damage of the wire rope; Inaccurate detection; time and labor cost much, etc.

 

3. Correct selection for wire rope testing technology

 

Non-destructive testing(NDT) technology is a safety testing method commonly used in various industries.

 

At present, Luoyang TST flaw detection technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "TST") has the current core technology of "full magnetic detection", which solves the safety management problem of nondestructive testing of ferromagnetic metal components (wire ropes), and adopts the method of sensor full magnetic information extraction , applying cloud storage big data analysis and processing technology, professionally provides customers with ferromagnetic metal components (wire rope) non-destructive detection technology services, equipment sales and safety management solutions.

 

TST intelligent flaw detection system can effectively and quantitatively judge wire rope damage: broken wire, wear, corrosion, fatigue, kink, deformation, loose strands, etc., monitor the running process of the wire rope in real time and give early warning and alarm, give the detection results that meet the requirements of the standard, generate the the detailed inspection report of the situation and a prediction of the rope life and future safety.


 


4. How to ensure the safety of wire rope?
 

TST intelligent flaw detection system has filled the gaps in the steel wire rope inspection work in various fields, and broke the old mode of wire rope inspection in the past, which was based on appearance, visual inspection and manual inspection, so that we can fully and timely understand the safety status of the steel wire rope in operation.