DEVELOPMENT, RELATIONSHIP of THE ASME BOILER AND PRESSURE VESSEL COMMITTEE AND THE NATIONAL BOARD of BOILER and PRESSURE VESSEL INSPECTORS

摘要

In the late 1800 and early 1900s, boiler explosions occurred in a Brockton, Mass, shoe factory on March 10, 1905, leaving 57 persons dead and 117 injured along with a $250,000 property loss. In Lynn, Mass., another shoe factory boiler explosion occurred on December 6, 1906, causing one death, several injuries, and a property loss of $422,000. These two losses resulted in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacting a boiler law on May 29, 1907, that created a Board of Boiler Rules; and in August 1907, the first rules for construction, installation, and operation of steam boilers were passed. An air tank explosion in 1911 caused the Commonwealth to add unfired pressure vessel rules to the boiler rules. This created the first legal code rules for construction of steam boilers and pressure vessels. The Static of Ohio issued a similar boiler construction code in 1911.