OMG what an explosion!!

[DandyDon]

Scrap metal scavengers buy a large, used Oxygen tank and take it home on the freeway - without a pressure release open.

Damnit - I wanted to attach the PPS file. Can't.

If you'd like to see the photos, put Oxygen Tank Explosion in subject line and email me at DandyDon@Scubaboard.com :14:

 

[JahJahwarrior]

holy crap! the tank flew a quarter of a mile!!!!!!!!!! DANG!!

 

[DandyDon]

Yeah, I'm still wondering why? Oxygen in itself is not combustible. Oxygen tanks travel in the backs of pickups all the time. I wonder if there was a contaminate in the tank with the O2, or what?

Nothing left of the pickup was there? Amazing that no one died.

Anyway, I'll keep this available for fowarding for a few weeks...

 

[JahJahwarrior]

Well, it said they plugged up the pressure release valves, and they didn't fill it like you are supposed to. They jerry rigged the whole thing. Tank might not have been in hydro either.