Having worked at a chemical company, I've become a work/shop safety advocate!
Sadly, last Wednesday, our Jr Dragster racing friends Jim and daughter Maddie had a garage fire that destroyed the garage, entire house and Maddie's Jr Dragster that was inside the race trailer parked next to the garage. Jim was air lifted to John Hopkins burn unit with 3rd degree burns on his hands, arms, legs and butt. The Dr's put him into an induced coma for pain management.
We assumed that Jim was working on his race car, and was somehow trapped under.... Not the case. Turns out, there was no car in the garage at all, and Jim was simply transferring gas from a street car tank to plastic containers. Unknown as to the exact ignition source, but fire marshall believes static electricity build up, whereas the insurance adjuster believes that fuel vapor traveled across the floor and into the cabinet of a working refrigerator which then ignited and exploded - it was blown away from the wall by ~2'.
So, another task that many of us do/have done without much regard to 'what could go wrong'. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/frown.gif[/img]
