Originally Posted by Gravman

We had a Phosgene cyl rupture at the plant one evening. When a high pressure cyl fails it does incredible things...We had a new guy who had only been there a couple of days and he suddenly decided the gas biz was not for him. The reaction in the cyl had to go past 10,000 psi to cause that type of failure. We traced it back to a caustic suck back into the cyl before filling...What a mess. Thank goodness no one was working that night.