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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!
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Wow! Nice.
One of my machining gigs was making electrodes for EDM machines. They are made out of graphite and we had a transformer over our four milling machines... about twice a year the graphite dust would build up and BANG! fireball flying  It was right above our computers where we would do the CAD and programming. Knocked me off the chair one time, thought I was ded. Had to check to make sure my shoes were still on.
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