[denny]

My condolences to the family...

http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120424-NEWS-120429898

[beersk]

Oh sh*t...that's a tragedy. 

[weithman5]

 

[Pinski]

Man, that is just terrible.

[tonyp]

i'll raise a brew to a fallen brother. so sorry to hear it.

[saintpierre]

Tragic news

[hopfenundmalz]

Sad news. 

Think safety when brewing my friends. 

[tschmidlin]

Ugh, bummer.

[nateo]

That's crazy. Do kegs have a certification/testing process like with SCUBA tanks?

[majorvices]

That's awful! I can't understand how in the world that could have happened.

[Slowbrew]

Terrible news. 

Maybe more information will come out after the investigation as to what actually happened.

Paul

[tschmidlin]

I'm guessing faulty or defective equipment.  It could have been a bad keg or maybe some pressure relief valve failed closed.  Not good either way.

[loopy]

I've learned that it was a plastic soda keg that was returned to the brewery for some reason - not a stainless keg normally used by the brewery. Unknown whether it was highly pressurized when it was brought in, or whether it was over-pressurized on site when it failed. Sounds like he was attempting to purge the remnants from the keg (or was about to) when it blew.

[rjharper]

I was at Cigar City a couple of weeks ago.  The tour guide said one of their plastic half barrel kegs blew just a couple of days prior to my being there.  Nobody was hurt, but there were some damaged fluorescent lights hanging. They reckon it was a faulty pressure relief, but that would mean they must have taken it past 130psi while filling it.

[euge]

That's awful man.

Jeez I'd think a partition or something would be between the keg and worker.