You Tube of a bloke violating/ignoring safety procedures and paying the price. Being complacent is never good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgHaISDFk_M
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You Tube of a bloke violating/ignoring safety procedures and paying the price. Being complacent is never good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgHaISDFk_M
you cant fix stupid.
What planet did they find they guy on?
Ralph
I doubt if they have found him yet he was blasted into another dimensionQuote:
Originally Posted by Ralphxyz
What is that pressure vessel? He seemed to be washing it with a garden hose? What would cause an explosion?
I have no idea what the vessel is but it would seem that he was probably using some volatile solvent in the hose when the critical percentage of oxygen to fuel ratio was achieved, a combination of the proper temperature in the vessel and a spark from static electricity from his cleaning cloth or whatever he was using created a flash-over. The volume of air space in the vessel versus the nozzle effect of the opening accentuated the thrust of the blast I would imagine death could have been instant if not at the very least his arm would have been vaporized and half his head would have had burns more severe than 3rd degree. judging from the force that carried him away, my vote was instant deathQuote:
Originally Posted by Tooler2
crap I dropped my unlit cigarette....wow it's dark down there......where is my lighter....hear it is!!! now to find my smoke.......and now for the next trick!!!!film at 11!!
I would think it is the employer who is complacent/stupid/whatever, not the poor worker.
I think his hard hat didn't make it through the roof.....but the wearer did? Looks like a piece of his shirt rained down from the ceiling.
I've never seen anyone disappear so quick. Is that his coat dropping in the background and is that bits of him dropping all over the place. You see his hat come to ground.
Assuming the video description is accurate (it is chemically plausible, in any case), this was a hydrogenation kettle that was unintentionally purged with room air instead of nitrogen after a reaction -- the residual ethanol vapor from the solvent in the kettle mixes with air to make an explosive mixture. As for ignition, the Raney nickel hydrogenation catalyst is pyrophoric, and even spent catalyst can ignite on contact with air. The kettle was being washed out with water through the access port, but the mixture still flashed.
With regards to the worker, I don't think there's any chance that this was survivable. He's out of view in about six frames, and that kind of acceleration is likely to be fatal even before he hits the ceiling or other machinery.
Edit: Just noticed something -- around the 10-second mark, there's a big patch of light that suddenly appears between the third and fourth kettles. I'm thinking this is sunlight from a hole in the roof, and it's where most of the debris falls.
Double Edit: I found the accident report (using google translate) -- this was indeed a hydrogenation reactor (for converting p-nitrophenol to p-aminophenol), and there was one casualty.
With such high oxidation rate and violence of movement, before the soles of Mr. Wang's shoes had traveled the first inch, his lungs were outside his body and the aorta had separated from his heart. It's due to Hollywood's "Marvel-ization" of Anatomy and Physics that anyone could believe Mr. Wang not only survived that blast but was seen, later that evening, singing Karaoke, and knocking down Tsingtaos at his favorite Guangzhou bar.
Brutal.
Can I go back to before I saw it?
I'm not one for "snuff films".