PITTSBURGH (WPXI) — Officials say there was a bizarre accident at a Pittsburgh government building on Monday as a toilet shattered and injured a city employee.
Photos show all that is left after the tank on the toilet shattered, leaving sharp jagged edges of porcelain.
A while back, there was a recall of “pressure assisted toilets,” toilets with pressurized tanks that were exploding. There is a steel pressure tank inside the porcelain “tank.” The porcelain “tank” is for cosmetic purposes only. The pressure tank has air in it that gets compressed up to the water supply pressure when it fills with water. When you flush, you instantly open the lower valve to the pressure tank and you get a “power flush” when the air expands and forces the water out into the bowl under pressure. Unfortunately, due to defective pressure tanks, some of these toilets were exploding and injuring people.
ReplyDeleteHere is a site that explains it https://www.flushmate.com/blog/what-are-pressure-assisted-toilets-and-why-should-you-install-them
Well I see another lawsuit coming. If I walked in and saw the condition of that shithole I would have turned my ass around and got out of there.
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ReplyDeleteSeems I remember during the 1970s there was a spate of incidents in high schools where the little darlings dropping lit M-80s as they flushed. Maybe this "government building" anti-Trump individual's grandfather gave him the idea.
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