Tank launched from Waukesha Iron ...

[Sinifar]

Now this is what happens in our neighborhood ... from the local fish wrapper .. the Waukesha Freeman.

Employees at Mander Collision heard a loud boom, and 10 seconds later a huge chunk of steel came thru the roof leaving a four foot hole. (That a half block from us) .. Waukesha Fire Marshall Chadsworth said a compressed natural gas cylinder was being "processed" at Waukesha Metal and Iron, The three foot by 12 inch cylinder was labeled as purged, but he guessed it was not. Two pieces of the tank landed in separate parts of the city. The top half went thru the roof of Mander, 1604 Manhattan Dr. and the other half demolished a fence in the yard of a home in the 900 block of Harding Ave. Both are about a quarter mile from Waukesha Iron .... The Fire Marshall continued, there was the potential for serious injury but luckily that didn't happen. The employees at Mander are freaked out, and the home owner is just glad it missed his house. A call to Waukesha Iron was not answered....

This is the fourth or fifth time something like this has happened over there. Several BIG FIRES and junk blowing out of the yard have sprayed our neighborhood. But this is in industrial part of town, so I guess we can expect something like this from time to time. Last year Metal Tech, a company that makes spinning castings had a little problem and this neighborhood ended up with a hunk of semi solid steel in somebody's back yard.

Frankly, I thought with all the road construction on Hwy 18 below us it was them just blasting something. Ya well, a little excitement in the area!

Just another day in the 'Sha ... Maybe Waukesha Iron should give N. Korea lessons on launching things!!! lolol

Sinifar

[Tyler J. Thomas]

This is the fourth or fifth time something like this has happened over there.

That's about three or four times too many.

[Squelchtone]

, that's awesome. glad everyone is safe.

We've had a couple explosions in Springfield, it's a city with lots of industrial facilities working with chemicals, molten steel, etc. I listen to the scanner and get to hear lots of interesting things.

Here's a gas leak that leveled a strip club, a gas worker punctured an underground line while probing the street, locals blamed the mafia running the brand new strip club:


Here's the Jahn Foudnry that blew up killing 3 in 1999, dust explosion:


Here's a shipping container of magnesium shavings that ignited all by itself (same industrial area as the Jahn Foundry above) and made a flames reflect off the clouds in the sky seen from 10 miles away (I was 10 miles away in my back yard and saw it when it blew up)


Thanks for sharing your local story here, and remember kids, Industrial Safety is No Accident. =)
Squelchtone

[billdeserthills]

I'm sure their liability insurance company will take fast action to put them out of business, by upping their rates