Fouled Anchor Safety
The work order
Movie Hazard Analysis #07 runs the abandoned missile silo descent from WarGames (1983) as if it were a real work order: four steps, hazard by hazard, controls, and initial vs. residual risk scoring.
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Steps 1, 2, and 3:
- Stop unauthorized approach and establish exclusion at the perimeter
- Classify the silo and prepare permit-required confined-space entry
- Set up rescue, communications, hatch protection, and descent equipment
What moved the risk
This export scores on MIL-STD-882E, where a lower number is worse: 1 High, 2 Serious, 3 Medium, 4 Low, 5 Negligible. The residual sits worse than the initial, and the document flags controls as insufficient on all four steps.
The transfer to real work. An unventilated underground space with no gas meter, no attendant, no retrieval system, and no rescue team is a permit-required confined space whether or not anyone calls it one. Most confined-space fatalities take a second victim - the would-be rescuer. Two people is not a crew; it's one entrant and one witness.
Every hazard, control and risk number shown comes from the JHA itself; nothing is invented or rounded for effect. Inspired by WarGames (1983): 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.
