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Fire Extinguisher Disaster.

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A customer of mine had a new 6kg powder fire extinguisher in its cardboard box in the back of his van. The fire extinguisher was not installed in its holder as per its instructions. It just slid about in the back of the van bumping about as the van hit pot holes.


Unexpectedly  the extinguisher automatically discharged filling the van with  powder while my customer was driving it. The customer's old dad was in the van at the time as a passenger, and it was difficult getting him out quickly from the powder laden air inside the van. Both men had to attend hospital to be checked over.


A lesson to be learned there I think.


Z.


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    Some years ago I was working in Cheltenham and a gas fitter arrived having driven down the M5 from Droitwich looking and sounding very harassed.


    When I politely enquired if he was okay he said he had finished a job in Droitwich and thrown his tools he had been using into cardboard box and put that into the back of his van rather than putting everything in neatly as he had just fitted an identical hob in Droitwich so the tools he had out were exactly what he needed for the job in Cheltenham.


    This simple plan all went wrong when the van hit a pothole at 70mph on the M5 and things shifted about in the back of the van, he heard a click and a whoosh as his Rothenburgher gas torch ignited itself setting fire to the cardboard box it was in with the other tools. He had to cut across two lanes of traffic to do a emergency stop on the hard shoulder then get the burning box out of the back of his van and salvage the contents.


    Personally as I don’t use my gas torch daily I take the bottle off, but if you don’t just mind what how you store the assembled torch and bottle in the back of the van.


    Andy 


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    Some years ago I was working in Cheltenham and a gas fitter arrived having driven down the M5 from Droitwich looking and sounding very harassed.


    When I politely enquired if he was okay he said he had finished a job in Droitwich and thrown his tools he had been using into cardboard box and put that into the back of his van rather than putting everything in neatly as he had just fitted an identical hob in Droitwich so the tools he had out were exactly what he needed for the job in Cheltenham.


    This simple plan all went wrong when the van hit a pothole at 70mph on the M5 and things shifted about in the back of the van, he heard a click and a whoosh as his Rothenburgher gas torch ignited itself setting fire to the cardboard box it was in with the other tools. He had to cut across two lanes of traffic to do a emergency stop on the hard shoulder then get the burning box out of the back of his van and salvage the contents.


    Personally as I don’t use my gas torch daily I take the bottle off, but if you don’t just mind what how you store the assembled torch and bottle in the back of the van.


    Andy 


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