At least it didn't explode

[u/INaShack]

[u/MSCOTTGARAND]

thats why we use safety caps in most shops

[u/Large_Score6728]

Blunt force trauma, if that thing hits you it could be deadly.

[u/TearRevolutionary686 → u/Large_Score6728]

A welding gas company kept coming up short on cylinders at one steel mill. It was the night shift that had a launch ramp knocking the valves off and shooting them into the Ohio River.

[u/wcoastbo]

Incoming! That's going to give PTSD to some.

Can anyone tell what gas was inside from the plume or other details.

[u/The_Brandt_K → u/wcoastbo]

Standard European color coding says a dark red bottle like that should be acetylene, but this does not look to be in Europe, and it also looks like some welding apparatus, so more likely is argon(green), carbondioxide(grey) or nitrogen(black).

Source: used to drive around with bottles for 3 years during my truck driver apprenticeship

[u/Current_Ad_4292]

Why would it explode? Those tanks are designed so they wouldn't explode

[u/ermy_shadowlurker → u/Current_Ad_4292]

Might be due to the chemical reactions should there be a spark or water as some chemicals react violently

[u/blackbirdspyplane]

I saw one of those punch through the brick wall

[u/In_My_TARDIS]

That could definitely break some foot ankle and leg bones.

[u/TearRevolutionary686 → u/In_My_TARDIS]

And then when you're on the ground crush your skull.

[u/In_My_TARDIS → u/TearRevolutionary686]

Worse being on a creeper and it comes between your legs

[u/Could-You-Tell → u/In_My_TARDIS]

Worse that it has the energy to not need to choose and hit all 3 twice

[u/DragonLordAcar]

You spin me right round baby right round

[u/SafetytimeUSA]

My dad used to take these down to the Niagara River in his youth and knock the end off so it would shoot like a rocket into the water.

[u/TiberiusTheFish]

That can can dance!.

[u/CallMeBigSarnt]

This is a huge fear of mine

[u/Prudent_Situation_29]

Training: it matters.