Gas Bottle Saftey Pictures Needed

Some people I work with dont think its important to restrain high pressure gas cylinders. They've never seen one go off. I haven't either, but I've got a good imagination.

Anyway, in order to convince them that they'd better comply with the law and chain them up I'd like to show them some pictures or better still, some videos of the damage an oxy bottle in full flight can do. I went looking on the net for such photos but couldn't find anything !

So, if any of you generous, intelligent and exceptionally good looking people know where I might be able to download pictures that show the destruction, please advise me.

Thanks for any help,

Dean.

( Come to think of it, I should strap one of the offenders to a big gas cylinder and let it off ! ....or train a monkey to do that bit )

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``The blast blew one individual across 5 lanes of traffic. The other was blown approximately 40 feet. Both survived''

``Cylinder flew approximately 1 mile before plunging through the roof of an apartment, severing a main natural gas line and coming to rest in the living space''

Great pictures there. Fabulous stuff.

Does finding this make me exceptionally good looking?

i
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Ignoramus16495

Ignoramus16495 wrote: ...

Make that 1/4 mile.

I don't think it's what the OP was asking about, but interesting. This was a tank of liquid oxygen which blew by not being able to vent.

As I understand it, liquid oxygen bottles are not pressure vessels, but contain the oxygen by keeping it cold. But, of course, it isn't kept perfectly cold, so some of it "boils" and needs to be vented. So it seems to me that the bottle would burst before much pressure built up and that there wouldn't be much stored *pressure* energy to release. And I wonder what caused the damage. Was it the rapid boiling of the oxygen once the tank ruptured? But that would take a lot of heat. Maybe the tank ruptured, but not too violently, spilled LOX on the truck, which caught fire and supplied the heat to explosively boil off the rest. Makes some sense.

Bob

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Bob Engelhardt

Shoot 'em in the ass with a pellet gun a couple of times to demonstrate the power of rapidly decompressing gasses. Explain then that an oxy cylinder is kind of the same, but scaled up a whole bunch and has the benefit of making everything in the immediate area extremely flammable.

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B.B.

"Ignoramus16495" >

Hey thanks. Great pictures. I was actually talking about the oxygen cylinders commonly used in oxy-acetylene welding set-ups, but these are good examples of high pressure vessle explosions.

Well compared to me I'm sure you are.

Thanks, Dean.

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Dean

"B.B." >

Similar thoughts have crossed my mind. The problem is, a lot of the people I work with are senior doctors and its really hard to get the message through to some of them without causing more problems - eg. They could use their influence to take gas cylinder safety out of my hands and give it to someone too scarred to make a fuss.

Isn't it amazing that the very people who would be required to screw people back together after an explosion are the ones most likely to cause it in this case.

Dean.

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Dean

Well, think of their incentive here, and you would understand why they are against safety.

i
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Ignoramus16495

This won't help you make your case, but...

Whenever I'm in a hospital, I can't help but notice the O2 tanks that are strapped, horizontally, to the undercarriage of the beds. Then I notice the wheels on the beds, and the long hallways...Drag races, anyone?

Alas, that would probably be good for a Darwin award.

-Ron

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Ron DeBlock

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