Had a site safety guy in Gary pull me aside after I ignored a seal weld crack

I was working a boiler retube at a plant outside Gary, Indiana last November, and this old inspector named Hank walked up to me while I was tacking a tube sheet. He said "son, that crack is gonna grow into a leak you'll be welding over for two weeks." I shrugged it off but he was dead right, three days later I had to cut out six tubes and redo the whole section. Has anyone else had an old-timer catch something you missed that saved your back?

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morganhayes22d ago

What kinda six sense do these old guys have anyway? I swear they can smell a bad weld from fifty feet away.

grace_hunt8422d ago

Nah, I'd argue Hank was just being a typical inspector covering his own ass. Old guys love to act like they've seen it all, but plenty of times they're wrong and you'd be fine just burning through the job the way you had it.