Posted By Scott d
Hi All,

I am looking for some horror stories or in particular pictures for a training session I am carrying out.

I have scrolled the internet with little success!

Many Thanks,

Scott

Posted By David Bannister
Forgot to add that I particularly liked the one from New Zealand about the rear seat passengers in the car sniffing from an LPG cylinder whilst the driver lit a cigarette - this is an assumption from the bits that were found!

Posted By Scott d
Many Thanks David and Descarte for your help, I will check this out immediately.

Scott

Posted By Mike
I don’t have any personal experience of the notorious torpedo effect where the neck of a high pressure cylinder breaks off in a fall. This may or may not have happened in modern times.

I have experience of a potentially fatal incident in a lab where the wrong regulator was screwed onto a helium cylinder by an person with well below normal finger strength. The thread match was close but not close enough. With their weak fingers they could not sense the cross-threading and forced it with a spanner. When the main valve was opened by a second person the regulator flew off at very high speed. Only by the chance orientation of the regulator was a fatality avoided. In the event the second person suffered temporary deafness and psychological trauma.

There was a chlorine incident I witnessed in the early 1970s at Salford University. A chlorine cylinder regulator valve froze solid in the open position and operators broke the valve trying to force it close. Fortunately it was on or near the ground floor and firemen with BA eventually heaved the leaking cylinder through a window onto a lawned area outside the lab where a white circle of bleached grass appeared.

Posted By Scott d
Thanks Again to those who have replied!!!!

I will try to get a hold of a copy of the mythbusters episode

Posted By Paul
Hi Scott D and interested bodies.
Read your thread Scott on gas cylinder stories.
My story is about the gas pipes connected to
the gas cylinders.Which i was lying on un-
conscions for 3/4hr,which had reignited in
the area i was working in.It was the smell of
cooking meat that brought the attention of
my saviour (poor Billy)and raise the alarm.
The rest is history.I now give H&S seminars
on what happens when it goes wrong and how
this accident could have easily been prevented.
Not only the company but also amargine on my
side.For more info go to my web page,which
has an image of a live BBQ leg if you have
never seen one? (I hope this is what your
looking for).www.cbsafetyserviceltd.co.uk
Do not hesitate to phone.
Kind regards Paul Burns.

Posted By lewes
I have a couple of pics with a gas cylinder in a car which were not secure. Both ended up through the front wind screen.

Also got a newspaper clip of a fire and the aftermarth of a gas cylinder now looking like a banana skin !!!