Fire chief: 3 die, 4 hurt when boiler explodes in St. Louis

[TexasTowelie]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Three people were killed and four others injured Monday when an explosion launched a boiler the size of a van through the roof a St. Louis box company and slammed much of it down hundreds of feet away in a neighboring laundry business, the fire chief said.

One person died in the blast about 8 a.m. at the Loy-Lange Box Co. and two more were killed when a large piece of the boiler crashed into the Faultless Healthcare Linen building's office area a block away, Fire Chief Dennis Jenkerson said.

Investigators were trying to pinpoint what caused the cast iron boiler estimated to weigh about a ton and a half to explode at the building in a largely industrial area of south St. Louis, Jenkerson said.

Two of four survivors are critically injured, including a linen company worker who was found pinned beneath the boiler, which Jenkerson said was roughly 4 feet in diameter and 10 feet long (1.2 meters in diameter and 3 meters long).

He said the boiler was still hot when rescuers arrived and that it had traveled up to 500 feet (150 meters).

Read more: http://www.gosanangelo.com/story/news/2017/04/03/fire-chief-3-die-4-hurt-when-boiler-explodes-st-louis/99990696/

[PoliticAverse]

1. This is why working pressure relief valves are needed. n/t

[doc03]

2. I operated boilers in Ohio, here boilers have to inspected yearly and

operators have to be trained and licensed by the state. For a boiler to be made of cast iron it would have riveted joints
and be 80 years or more old and not so safe regardless. Don't know what the laws are there but Missouri being a right to work
state safety is probably not a priority.

[pansypoo53219]

3. how victorian. PBS has been running a BBC deadly victorian inventions.

exploding stoves + etc.