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My dad worked for a company that made beef flavors and a reactor blew up and took out a 20-foot cinderblock wall. The reactor in this story is a very large pressure cooker and the cause of the explosion was a clogged pressure valve. The guy in the room was okay all things considered. Safety gear kept him safe. The whole place smelled like exploded meat for a long time.
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I dont want to wake the old man up to confirm but I think the guy in the room with the reactor left an outline on the floor amongst the spatter. Not unlike the acquaintance of Mr. Bean who went back in the apartment for his hat as Mr. Bean was painting his apartment with a gallon of paint and a firecracker.Anyways glad you're OK and I hope that soup smelled good enough to paint your walls with.
Wow, that's a wild story I'm glad to know!
And when we came back from the emergency room the smell was delightful and just made me want soup. Some friends made us replacement soup and brought it over yesterday!
The USCSB has accident investigation videos on youtube with industrial accidents like this. One was a chemical reactor vessel that was upscaled incorrectly from a smaller test sized vessel and it wasn't cooled correctly. Thing took the building out and killed employees.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C561PCq5E1g