Alert 99 – 34 Gardner Denver Safety Notice
WHAT HAPPENED:
The purpose of this notice is to inform personnel who own or operate Gardner Denver mud pumps of a potential safety hazard involving the failure of discharge manifolds on certain mud pumps. Gardner Denver has received four reports of discharge manifolds failing while in operation. The failures appear to be caused by a combination of overload and fatigue. The manifold failures resulted in sections of the manifolds being ejected at high velocity. There was one report of a minor injury.