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Movie Hazard Analysis #02 · Light cycle grid

Tron: Legacy (2010)

The hazard was never the racing

Strip away the neon and this is three people running powered equipment inside a marked boundary.

Initial risk
08
MEDIUM
Residual risk
04
LOW

Probability × severity, before and after the JHA’s controls. The highest-scoring step sets each band.

Movie Hazard Analysis #02 cover: Tron: Legacy (2010)
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The work order

Movie Hazard Analysis #02 runs the light cycle grid from Tron: Legacy (2010) as if it were a real work order: seven steps, hazard by hazard, controls, and initial vs. residual risk scoring.

Featured in the video

Three hazards, each paired with the control that answers it:

  1. Unexpected energization during connection or repositioning — Administrative
  2. Unexpected restart while entering the grid — Engineering
  3. Misunderstood stop commands during the initial sequence — Operational

What moved the risk

Boundary control, pre-energization inspection, and a verified stop-and-isolate sequence carry most of that reduction. This is the rare MHA scenario where the controls genuinely do their job.

FIELD NOTE

The transfer to real work. Every hazard here maps to ordinary powered-equipment work - temporary cable routing, exclusion zones, and stopping the system before anyone reaches into it. The lighting is fictional. Unexpected restart is one of the most common serious-injury mechanisms in real maintenance work.

Every hazard, control and risk number shown comes from the JHA itself; nothing is invented or rounded for effect. Inspired by Tron: Legacy (2010): commentary and hazard analysis of a fictional scene as depicted, with no affiliation with the film or its rights holders. The underlying JHA was generated with JHA Rapid, is AI-assisted, and must be reviewed by a qualified safety professional before use. Not a compliance document.

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