Silicosis?

Discussion in 'Oilfield Trucking Forum' started by CamryXSE, May 20, 2023.

  1. CamryXSE

    CamryXSE Light Load Member

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    I didn't think about rig workers bathing in the stuff.

    I don't know the risks. Maybe I'm just health conscious, possibly overly so.

    I've be going to the fitness center for 10 years. I've been dragging my feet about taking testosterone. I've had no gains since my first or second year just trying to make overall health a priority.

    Maybe I should just say it isn't for me?

    That sand enters your lungs and it's in there...forever? I just don't want to play with that.
     
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  3. JoeyJunk

    JoeyJunk Road Train Member

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    They have ones you drive over. It stays in place. Only saw it one time back in 2016. It was a new concept back then. CalFrac was doing it.
     
  4. CamryXSE

    CamryXSE Light Load Member

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    I thought ND works the tanks old school more than TX? Yeah, it was just that one thing holding me back. I have years of tanker experience.

    They said stand upwind, and they had us open up a tank first. It still seemed a lot to me, though.

    I once trained for a gasoline delivery job. I didn't particularly care for all the fumes in that job, either. In the end, pulling those supertankers in the snow and going to desolate gas stations at night, without a gun... I didn't last there, either.
     
  5. RockinChair

    RockinChair Road Train Member

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    I dunno, I've never worked in ND. That's @bonder45's area.

    If you were using vapor recovery at the racks and the stores then your exposure to vapors would've been minimal.
     
  6. Dadetrucking305

    Dadetrucking305 Heavy Load Member

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    The ones you drive over have a name but I can’t think of right now but those are only used now when the Viper style systems go down and a replacement is nowhere near or there’s no replacement’s.The viper style systems have a belt that moves left to right and retracts.
     
  7. jamin22

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    I would say there is still just as many if not more fracs still using hoppers with an operator with a respirator unloading them into a conveyer. On windy days (which is often in ND)the sand is everywhere in the air

    Halliburton seems to use sandboxes exclusively
     
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  8. FozzyNOK

    FozzyNOK Road Train Member

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    Silicosis and the threat of silicosis hasn't gone anywhere.
     
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