At the same refinery in '72, where my buddy got smacked by the valve (There's a reason they don't call them "Amusement Parks") I seen a beauty.
Guy from AIRCO was filling a LOX tank. Somehow the LOX hose disconnected, and fell right into a puddle of oil, right at his feet.
We were bolting up flanges about 25 yards away, and the explosion produced the thickest white cloud of smoke I ever seen, and a hell of a concussion.
The truck driver was hardly hurt, but he was very embarrassed! The explosion ripped the seam completely out of his pants, and when he got up off the ground he was wearing a 2-piece skirt, split vertically all the way up his legs.
Today, they would have taken' his "Man Card" away!
His only injury was a split lip, that they thought he got when the hose jumped up in the explosion.
