Welder Qualification Horror Stories
Welder Qualification Horror Stories
(OP)
I am a Welding Engineer and a self-proclaimed "Code Junkie". I love working my way through the ASME, ISO, and AWS codes/standards (I'm weird, I know). At work the other day, one of the shop floor supervisors asked, why do we need to qualify our welders. I tried giving them the canned "Because the codes/standards require it", but this person's personality is to challenge every requirement. So, I started performing a Google search to look for Horror stories where welds were made by an unqualified welder, but found very little.
Does anyone have a "Horror Story" they are familiar with where a weld was made by an unqualified welder and it ended catastrophically?
Does anyone have a "Horror Story" they are familiar with where a weld was made by an unqualified welder and it ended catastrophically?





RE: Welder Qualification Horror Stories
Remember - More details = better answers
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RE: Welder Qualification Horror Stories
http://www.weldersuniverse.com/weld_defects.pdf
MJCronin
Sr. Process Engineer
RE: Welder Qualification Horror Stories
Not weird at all, probably the mantra of the majority on this forum.
Don't waste too much time with this guy. You get to make the final call for the right reasons, correct?
I can't share a story that ended catastrophically, but I do know of a certain nuclear fabricator that was busted for making roughly 2500 welds without properly qualified welders. The result was complete cut out and reweld of stainless steel. You can only imagine the cost of doing that. Once you relate dollars to doing something wrong, it really sets in.
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