As anyone or dose anyone know if they have heard of anyone injuring themselves
Whilst connecting the airlines to a trailer RED if blow back occurs.
Or in any other case
âBlow backâ ?
The red line normally carries full pressure.
It is not easy to attach it, and if you release it when not fully on the pressure will push it back and could indeed hit you. It is easy to see that some injury could occur.
Without a form of on/off tap, which reintroduces a failure point in the system, it is difficult to avoid connecting at full pressure.
If the unit engine is turned off and brakes pumped to drop the air the pressure will drop to make it easier and less hazardous to attach the line, but dropping the air every time is not very practical, and the risk is a low one.
I donât see what âblowbackâ is, but do recognise that the ordinary pressure is more/less a real issue.
But to answer the exact question, never heard of a failure to connect the red-line causing injury, but very believable that it has.
Ed to add:
Could equally happen if the line is only loosely held when detaching the red-line too. The pressure could easily push the line out of a hand and it could be pushed by the air anywhere.
Iâm curious as to why you would ask.
I personally have never heard of anybody being injured putting a red line onâŚunless Frank Spencer is now a driver.
I would think for that to happen you would need to be either grossly unlucky, or be some inept ham fisted buffoon.
Donât discount anything, some people are more than capable of injuring themselves whilst putting their socks on.
AyeâŚare your toes any better btw?
4 Likes
Thought so
Just heard a rumour someone had done so.
But as you say unless Frank Spencer ! Showing our age, as started driving.
I thought very much unlikely if not impossible 
As a side note, I remarked to a new guy at ours how I was amazed that on the back of a Waitose trailer I was sat behind the shutter door had a painted on warning by the latch about using the correct handles plus two additional H&S stickers further up with similar cautions.
He reconed a few people at his old place had managed to injure themselves, one apparently a finger downâŚ
We had a similar b/s sign sticker put in our cabs.
I wrote on my time sheetâŚâPlease provide me with a sticker saying âŚRemember breathe in, breathe out, so I rememberââ
I was actually told to report to head depot for âŚâa disciplinaryâ 
.
I opted to âtake itâ at the local depot knowing what I am like, I would have told them to â â â â â â ram it, ending up trying to get a lift home 300 miles away.
The only thing it might do ? is knock some sence into you lol.
There are a few Frank Spencers about nowadays by the looks of things driving trucks lol.
After we recently had a whole new fleet of 7.5T/12T/18T rigids delivered, one of the (very time-served) drivers managed to significantly injure his hand when pulling down the rear roller-shutter door while standing on the tail-lift. The injury occurred when, with the shutter well on its way to the bottom of its travel, the driver helped it on its way by hooking his fingers between the slats as it unrolled. The slats closed up as it straightened and caused crush injuries to he fingers (fortunately soft tissue only). Within a few weeks the entire fleet had been fitted with a second grab-handle.