Gas cylinder launches like rocket in junkyard - GIF

[gargoyle]

Long time ago in a career far, far away, at a remote nuclear reactor site i was taking deliver of the weekly stock. One of the bottle was Sodium Hexaflouride. Its a REAL dense gas, the densest i ever managed. This also means that they are extremely heavy. Considerably more than O2, Acetylene, H2, He, NH3, or any of the other myriad consumable you find around a remote research h nuclear reactor.

So, the yokel unloading the pallet of five cylinders neglected to check his manifest for the weight of this pallet and "ASSumed" the forklift that he had on the back if his flat bed was up to the task.

Nope.

Long story short.

He dropped the pallet as soon as it cleared the step bed. Lift plunged forward to the ground, and two cylinders that didn't have their caps all the way on broke the valve bodies.

These two cylinder flew over a mile each.

This guy did NOT get the chance to drive the truck home. We made his supervisor drive out.