Originally Posted by JLarson

Exciting morning. Looks like there was a big explosion at our facility last night. We're still determining root cause, but it looks like an electrician doing work for our facility inadvertently shut off the water cooling for our hydrogen furnaces, causing a water jacket failure. Steam pressure built up outside the retort, and actually blew a 1200 lb retort out of the ground, shattered every window in the department, and did a fair amount of damage to our recorders and various electrical systems.

Neat!