[APD] Re: transporting CO2 tanks?

[Ken Simolo <Simolo at chem_chem.rochester.edu>]

Hi Michael,

Well, I can give you an example that is not third party.  When I was 
much younger, we went to a metal shop to get a piece of metal bent 
for my brothers aquarium stand.  An inert gas cylinder used for 
welding got knocked aside by a forklift, the valve broke off, and the 
tank went through a couple of cinder block walls before ending up 
inside a car in the parking lot.  It was quite impressive!

Near our cylinder tank storage area at work, we kept a newspaper 
clipping of an accident where a cylinder fell and broke its valve off 
while it was in a bus service pit.  It kept bouncing off the solid 
concrete walls as it whipped around inside the pit.  Fortunately, the 
worker was able to jump out of the pit before he was hit.

Ken


> That being said, despite the many urban folklore talks of cylinders
> getting hit and the valve going through a cinderblock wall, I have
> not personally witnessed that when tanks fell over, onto asphalt or
> rolled out of the backs of cars. I did of course get out of the way.
> I have asked many instructors, and shops if they have witnessed a
> cylinder valve break and become a projectile and none have but they
> all seem to know a third person story of one that did.
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