Yup, high pressure oil line let loose or split and showered a very hot machine. Don't think it was the oxy acetylene that set that off, or at least id does not appear so. Bummer.
Aw geez. Wood frame truss no less and flammable insulation - that can't be in USA and if it is they are going to have one heck of a fight with insurance
So looks like hydraulic line blew and fire started. Just wondering, are those ceiling tiles made of fucking flash paper?? Holy shyt they went up in a hurry.
No sigh of sprinkler system in there that I could see... oops.
Heck, I timed it. From the time the pipe burst and started spitting oil til the roof started coming down was 22 seconds!!!! Which ought to teach you;...if a fire breaks out, DO NOT FUCK AROUND - GET THE FUCK OUT!!!!
I went looking for it and found a news article here. It appears to be an extruded aluminum factory in Seville, Spain. Aluminum dust for incendiary beyond the burst hose, anyone?
Had a similar explosion in my steel factory. A furnace overheated, under a shelf of solid metal. It melted through the crucible and into the cooling lines. Watching the video later, the guy running the furnace finally figured that the metal going into the furnace had not moved in a long time, so decided to go and check on it. He got there and heard the noise under the bridge of metal, and took off running back away from the furnace, and within 10 seconds or less, it blew up. I was about 25 yards away, and ran behind the furnace platform to try and see if the operator was ok. He was already out the back door, without a single burn. By the time that 10 seconds had past, the melt floor had been covered with molten steel, a distance of about 150 feet, or a touch less. It was running underneath the control room door, that was 80 feet away from the furnace, and scared the 3 guys so much that they took off out the back door into the other area. We normally tapped the furnace at 3100 F. so we were only guessing that the bath had to have reached close to 4,000 F. by the time it melted through the lining. It was so hot you could not look at it, with naked eyes. I do know that in my 35 years there, I got so many burns from steel splatters that my arms do not tan like normal. I look like a Cheetah, with spots on my arms that some tan and some don't. That is why women make only 80 cents to a mans dollar. They simply cannot do some of the bullshit jobs that men will do. Living with the knowledge that you or your friend might not go home at night. It happened to me only once, with a friend being killed by an explosion. And a friend who was mentally ill killed his two young kids at the same shop, on a Thanksgiving Day. Few women would deal with that either.
Machining areas usually have a low density design criteria for the sprinkler system as there are few combustibles present. The system was probably there, but just overwhelmed by the atomized flammables that were ignited when that line let go. NFPA will rewrite the code book and this will never happen again....carry on. R
What a piss, poor design......
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Yup, high pressure oil line let loose or split and showered a very hot machine. Don't think it was the oxy acetylene that set that off, or at least id does not appear so. Bummer.
ReplyDeleteAw geez. Wood frame truss no less and flammable insulation - that can't be in USA and if it is they are going to have one heck of a fight with insurance
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna give EFFd up Monday a hard Pass.
ReplyDeleteI would love to get more details on what happened there.
ReplyDeleteWhat extrusion company was that? I loved that the guy, rather than hitting the emergency shutdown, just went to grab his cellphone
ReplyDeleteThe entire video is 45 seconds. That fire consumed everything in 45 seconds - which is not a lot of time to get out.
ReplyDeleteGotta save the cell phone.
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteYou call someone like me to fix that. Not some godless liberal.
ReplyDeleteYep, it me. That motherfucker Bert
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So looks like hydraulic line blew and fire started. Just wondering, are those ceiling tiles made of fucking flash paper?? Holy shyt they went up in a hurry.
ReplyDeleteNo sigh of sprinkler system in there that I could see... oops.
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Heck, I timed it. From the time the pipe burst and started spitting oil til the roof started coming down was 22 seconds!!!! Which ought to teach you;...if a fire breaks out, DO NOT FUCK AROUND - GET THE FUCK OUT!!!!
ReplyDelete"Grease Fires" - not just for home kitchens, apparently...
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the air was filled with an atomized flammable liquid which was spewed out at high pressure.
ReplyDeleteNo warning, no containment, no suppression.
Oh let me guess that was another food processing plant burning? Will be no food my October
ReplyDeleteAh yes, summer repeats...
ReplyDeleteWhat repeats? It's the first time I've posted that.
DeleteI went looking for it and found a news article here. It appears to be an extruded aluminum factory in Seville, Spain. Aluminum dust for incendiary beyond the burst hose, anyone?
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Steve, the link doesn't work.
DeleteTrying again: https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/v48rnt/extrudedaluminium_factory_jun_22/
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Had a similar explosion in my steel factory. A furnace overheated, under a shelf of solid metal. It melted through the crucible and into the cooling lines. Watching the video later, the guy running the furnace finally figured that the metal going into the furnace had not moved in a long time, so decided to go and check on it. He got there and heard the noise under the bridge of metal, and took off running back away from the furnace, and within 10 seconds or less, it blew up. I was about 25 yards away, and ran behind the furnace platform to try and see if the operator was ok. He was already out the back door, without a single burn.
ReplyDeleteBy the time that 10 seconds had past, the melt floor had been covered with molten steel, a distance of about 150 feet, or a touch less. It was running underneath the control room door, that was 80 feet away from the furnace, and scared the 3 guys so much that they took off out the back door into the other area.
We normally tapped the furnace at 3100 F. so we were only guessing that the bath had to have reached close to 4,000 F. by the time it melted through the lining. It was so hot you could not look at it, with naked eyes.
I do know that in my 35 years there, I got so many burns from steel splatters that my arms do not tan like normal. I look like a Cheetah, with spots on my arms that some tan and some don't. That is why women make only 80 cents to a mans dollar. They simply cannot do some of the bullshit jobs that men will do. Living with the knowledge that you or your friend might not go home at night. It happened to me only once, with a friend being killed by an explosion.
And a friend who was mentally ill killed his two young kids at the same shop, on a Thanksgiving Day. Few women would deal with that either.
Machining areas usually have a low density design criteria for the sprinkler system as there are few combustibles present. The system was probably there, but just overwhelmed by the atomized flammables that were ignited when that line let go. NFPA will rewrite the code book and this will never happen again....carry on.
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Well THAT looked expensive!
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