Gas Plant explosion in WV
 

Explosions, fire reported at West Virginia gas plant
The Associated Press
Posted: 05/13/2013 03:14:50 PM CDT
Updated: 05/13/2013 03:17:38 PM CDT

POCA, W.Va.—Emergency officials say crews are responding to reports of explosions and a fire at an industrial site in West Virginia.
Nitro firefighter Jeff Dorsey says crews were dispatched Monday afternoon to Airgas in Poca just outside Charleston. The company is a distributor of specialty gases used in industry and elsewhere.
Dorsey did not know if there were any injuries.
A telephone call to the company resulted in a busy signal. A woman who answered the phone at the company's regional headquarters said officials were in a meeting and could not immediately comment.



Very scary, I work in gas plants everyday. Have a big job tomorrow inside of a gas plant. I hate these damn things. One spark and BOOM

was this as big as the one in Waco recently?

Not sure.

Yikes.

Bunch of people working there had been trashing Geno Smith. So he blew them up.

I hate Big Gas.

If that's the case, DO NOT eat at Taco Bell then. My most severe gas explosions have come from my eating experiences at T-Bell

That's a shame.

I think I used to have a cross country race there in high school, all those decades ago. The Nitro Invitational or something like that.

Ban gas. No seriously.

Ban sparks.

Too many WVU fans burning couches.

Interesting factoid. The High School in Poca are the Poca Dots.

It's West Virginia, nobody cares anyway.

Try and blame the rise in gas prices on the Memorial Day weekend. HA

CP member WV might care.....prick

Or the families of the two workers that sustained 2nd and 3rd degree burns.

What we have here is



Failure with acetylene

Big Derrty had a similar problem a few years back with 'sparks flying' at a canister gas facility smack dab in south city.

It was like lighting a bunch of bottle rockets into the air to land willy-nilly, except these were full sized steel canisters. with oxygen, NOS and acetylene, flying out into neighborhoods surrounding them.