Vestas Wind Turbine Blade Throw Safety Zone 1640 Feet

Vestas Confidential Health and safety Instruction manual for a Falmouth MA wind farm.

"This is evidenced by the Vestas Confidential Health and safety Instruction manual for a Falmouth MA wind farm. Page 10 of this manual addresses the situation of a free spinning “runaway turbine”. In that manual, instructions are for no one to be allowed within a 1640 feet (500 m) radius. (See Exhibit 2)"

VESTAS Quote from attachment 1 -- Falmouth Massachusetts

ATTACHMENT 1

WIND TURBINE SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS

Vestas is one of the leading wind turbine manufacturers, with approximately 70% market share worldwide. Based on its prominence in the world market, the Vestas safety manual (32 pages) is a credible source of safety information.

Nordex is another well know manufacturer of wind turbines. Its Safety Manual (130 pages) likewise is considered a credible source of information on the subject of safety.

On page 3 of the Vestas Safety Regulations for Operators and Technicians Manual, point# 2. – Stay and Traffic by the Turbine, Vestas personnel are instructed to stay away from a turbine by 400 m (1312 ft) unless it is necessary. Taken in context, this distance would apply to normal operating conditions. (See Exhibit 1)

Under abnormal operating conditions, Vestas expands this distance in consideration of the safety of its employees.

This is evidenced by the Vestas Confidential Health and safety Instruction manual for a Falmouth MA wind farm. Page 10 of this manual addresses the situation of a free spinning “runaway turbine”. In that manual, instructions are for no one to be allowed within a 1640 feet (500 m) radius. (See Exhibit 2)

The Nordex Safety Manual also addresses safety in the context of a fire. On page 52, under section 9.3 Fire, it states

DANGER FALLING TURBINE PARTS In case of a fire in the nacelle or on the rotor, parts may fall off the wind turbine. In case of a fire, nobody is permitted within a radius of 500 m from the turbine. (See Exhibit 3) Given that these standards apply to employees who are familiar with the safety implications of wind turbines and are equipped to deal with abnormal conditions, it is indefensible, from a safety perspective alone, to specify in a wind ordinance designed to protect the public health, safety, and welfare a setback that is less than 1640 feet.

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Note this above is an attachment # 1 to the setbacks of a Vestas V 90 type 3.0 megawatt wind turbine that sites the Falmouth MA wind farm 1640 foot "runaway turbine" setbacks.

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Vestas Wind Turbines -Restricted Trade Secret 2010 -- Manual Safety Vestas Wind Turbines -- Town of Falmouth Massachusetts has two town-owned Vestas V-82 Type 1.65 megawatt wind turbines

Occupational Noise Exposure See Page 231 of 511 pages on PDF reader

https://www.opsb.ohio.gov/opsb/assets/File/12-0160-Vestas%20Health%20Safety%20%26%20Environment%20Manual.PDF

The Cape Cod Commission after the installation of the Falmouth wind turbines approved a setback of 10 times the rotor diameter of the proposed turbine from the nearest receptor, or residential zoned parcel.

Former Falmouth Select Board Chair Mary Pat Flynn voted in favor of the new setbacks which today would require nearly 3000-foot setbacks in Falmouth today.

Picture of former Falmouth Select Board Member Mary Pat Flynn with former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick aka sally.reynolds@state.ma.us

Select Board Member Mary Pat Flynn was Notified By MassDEP Wind 1 Broke State Regulations 310 CMR 7.10(1) On May 15, 2012.

Mary Pat Flynn, was on the Falmouth Select Board as of September 14, 2009 prior to the installations of the turbines.

Note # At the trial of former disgraced Speaker of the House Sal DiMasi it was disclosed former Governor Patrick used the email address sally.renolds@state.ma.us.The consensus is the governor used the email address to correspond with wind turbine contractors and avoid the FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, requests. Sally Renolds was the Grandmother of Deval Patrick The state archived the emails and House Sal DiMasi was sentenced to eight years in federal prison for corruption.

"Friends of Falmouth Wind" have filed a "Motion to Intervene" in the closed Falmouth wind turbine case. The motion already has multiple problems just serving the paper work and typos .