Today, January 17 2011 at 8AM, we had a fire at Kinetic Die Casting Company. Everyone was in the lunch room for a company staff meeting. We completed the discussion on “Forklift Safety” for driving, moving pallets and things not to do with a forklift. “Waste of Waiting” was the next topic, where we discussed getting our production parts quicker to our customers by not waiting for processes. We were just in the middle of a contest and discussing the 7 Wastes in manufacturing. Half of the employees had already won a soda for naming four of the seven wastes.

Suddenly someone yelled “There is a fire in the die casting area”.

Fires occur frequently enough in a die casting company, that we know what to do. We ran back to the die casting area and saw that roof was on fire above die casting production cell number two. There was an area of about three feet by three feet blazing ferociously over the production cell number two melting furnace. Three people grabbed fire extinguishers and someone turned off the gas off to the die casting furnace. There was a great deal of excitement for about 20 minutes. Our continuous safety training saved the die casting building.

After the excitement, we resumed our production improvement meeting. The goal is long term improvements to Kinetic Die Casting Company without getting side tracked by other issues.

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