Ruptured gas cylinder safety warning - photo

[Skun Knuckles]

The Trades school I attended, when I was a young apprentice, had a similar display of a G size oxygen cylinder from a work shop that had been burnt out in the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 in Victoria Australia.
It had ruptured with such force it was nearly flat, looking at it from the front it looked like a bat standing upright with its wings out stretched.
Things such as gas cylinders plus other materials and equipment have the potential to be very dangerous yet myself and millions of others are using them in their daily lives without a second thought, I always remember the words of one of my trade teachers “A lot of people are killed by complacency.”