Drum barrel explodes beneath welder - GIF

Drum barrel explodes beneath welder.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...212#post184737
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...732#post159643
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...616#post102044
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...120#post195447
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...054#post191381

This video reminds me of a story from my brother in law. His first big liability case as a lawyer, in western North Dakota, was a guy that got badly burned by opening a 55 gallon drum using an Oxyacetylene torch. He got the drum from a local metal salvage yard.
The drum was a discard from the oil field, and it contained the remains of a flammable solvent.
So as his torch pieced through the top of the drum, it exploded, blowing the bottom out and launching like a missile. This spray him with burning solvent. He ended up with 3rd degree burns, and as my BIL said, looked like Frankenstein.
So he won in court. The manufacture of the drum had liability as it did not have all the required labels per OSHA and other gov agencies. And the metal salvage yard had some liability in selling it without first removing the top. The results was they got a can opener.
The settlement was over $3mil, with some in cash up front and some as structure payout over time (late 1970s had more sensible payouts).
This pissed the claimant off having a structured cash flow over time, to which my BIL said to him "you did not get this money because you were smart". The guy ended up spending all the initial cash payout buying antique cars manufactured the year he was born.

If this guy didn't end up with 2 broken legs / knees, he's probably deaf!

Somehow I think that there's an OSHA regulation that would have prevented his being launched like that.

In 2011 a local 18 year old student died cutting a steel barrel with an angle grinder to build a barbeque in shop class, the barrel was properly labelled showing it has previously contained peppermint oil but it had been rinsed with a volatile degreaser, he didn't ask the teacher if he could proceed he just went at it.

Sadly the teacher has never set foot in a classroom again.

Early attempts at manned spaceflight. :D