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Air carrier ramp worker reported the use of a non-standard fueling nozzle could lead to introduction of the incorrect fuel to ground equipment.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1610157 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201901 |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | No Aircraft |
| Flight Phase | Other General Ramp |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Ramp |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown |
Narrative:
There is a green fuel nuzzle connected to the gas fuel hose at the terminal fuel farm. All of the other gas nuzzle are black. The green ones indicates diesel. There are times when employees do not have their fuel farm key fob with them. They would pull to fuel farm and just ask someone to borrow their key fob or sometimes just tell the person to hand over the nuzzle when they are finish fueling their equipment; the green non-standard nuzzle can lead to serious equipment damage that can become costly to the company. For instance; let's say there is an employee there at the fuel farm utilizing the non-standard green nuzzle that is attached to the gas pump to refuel a gas powered piece of equipment. An unsuspecting fellow co-worker pulls up just when the person was about to finish gassing up his piece of equipment and to use the same fuel pump with the green nuzzle because he/she thinks it is diesel because that is the type of fuel their piece of equipment requires. This is piece of equipment can be an air start mobile cart or even a pushback tractor and on the equipment the cost can be substantial.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Air carrier ramp worker reported the use of a non-standard fueling nozzle could lead to introduction of the incorrect fuel to ground equipment.
Narrative: There is a green fuel nuzzle connected to the gas fuel hose at the terminal fuel farm. All of the other gas nuzzle are black. The green ones indicates diesel. There are times when employees do not have their fuel farm key fob with them. They would pull to fuel farm and just ask someone to borrow their key fob or sometimes just tell the person to hand over the nuzzle when they are finish fueling their equipment; the green NON-STANDARD nuzzle can lead to serious equipment damage that can become costly to the company. For instance; let's say there is an employee there at the fuel farm utilizing the non-standard green nuzzle that is attached to the gas pump to refuel a gas powered piece of equipment. An unsuspecting fellow co-worker pulls up just when the person was about to finish gassing up his piece of equipment and to use the same fuel pump with the green nuzzle because he/she thinks it is diesel because that is the type of fuel their piece of equipment requires. This is piece of equipment can be an air start mobile cart or even a pushback tractor and on the equipment the cost can be substantial.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.