Paris Tennessee Boiler Explosion

[clairebehun]

very interesting thanks

[distractionxx]

some really good stuff here

[BlindElement88]

i live in pairs TN and it happend about 5 years ago

[NessieCullen1223]

Question, uh where is this place and when did this happen? Like what road cause I live here in Paris Tennessee, and I know nothing about this... So Im confused.

[soulfultenor]

This is why you never bypass your safetys !!

[bedner44]

Should have went to STCC

[browneyedgirl38242]

I know the guy that got hurt in that explosion and he is fine and well other than the scars hes recieved from some ignorant mantanance man's mistake.

[KnittingPasta]

is it me, or do I see steam/smoke coming from the faulty boiler before it blows up?

[intrptr]

That mantain man was acting sort of suspicious ... IDK... K? But he seems to hover ,looking around,then grabs ,What was that he grabbed?, glancing once more to see if hes clear, then moves quickly off.. prolly nothin... some commenters seem to be at odds how this could happen... if you add hostile or suicidal intent... then what?

[Ethanovich11]

This is actually footage of the boiler explosion at the Seton Unit of MaineGeneral Medical Center in Waterville Maine.

[HCGLondon]

That's why the CARDINAL # 1 RULE of combustion is do not jump any safety device of any kind out!!!!

[boilerman18]

Interesting video but definitely NOT the Paris TN boiler at Dana Corp. That was a firetube boiler that was propelled into the plant by the explosion. I agree with some of the earlier posts that this was probably a firebox explosion or some other event somewhere else in the plant.

[RandallDFrench]

Nobody died!

[mandoman52]

OK so how many exploding boilers did they have on the same day in the same plant? If you search the official report on the Dana Boiler explosion in Paris Tenn you will see that they were firetube boilers and one was blown right out of the boiler room. These are watertube boilers and you can still see the boiler fronts (at least the forced draft fans) after the explosion.

[56woodz]

When the Boiler Operator came back in was wearing a winter jacket. Not something you would wear in June.

[flossjw1]

Hmmm,if a boiler went in another room due to low water,sounds like the "coffee pot effect",y'know, when you place a hot glass coffee pot under cold water....."crack".Not enuff water to keep the metal cool so as to keep the metal itself from suffering instant failure & thus all the steam pressures rush out at once.

[benthebug]

That is really scary. I hope no one got hurt.

[NJPurling]

Are there supposed to be safety devices and back-up systems. So whoever is supposed to monitor the boilers can see the water level is unusually low and kill the furnace before starting a emergency pump if there is one.

[cqa9]

@NJPurling

Yes, numerous cut off switchs make it impossible for this to happen.....unless some idiot tampers with the safety cut offs...in a nut shell, high/low water cut offs,high pressure cut off,low fire/flame failure safeys, i can go on here there are a lot of safeties in place. Problem her was the operator didnt let the feed pumps do there job.The operator should have rotated to the lag boiler,and then shut down the lead boiler so he could service it.

[zequelll]

wtf man get out of there 2:55

[marshalljimduncan]

holy cattlewagons, good thing that guy left when he did!

[karburox]

impresionante...

[chiefeff]

wrong the paris tenn. boilers were cleaver brooks boiler not nebraskas plus both ends where blown off and ripped thru the building and landed on a ford bronco over 200 feet away look up under pics there is on video when it happened only after. and yes someone did die.

[ducks032]

French Fries and Yankee doodle Dandees we need a safety codes act but SHIT happens right thats High Pressure steam for you.

[cutterschoicenotmine]

mamod operating rules number 1:

never replace saftey valve with bolt.

[kez259]

@cutterschoicenotmine HAHA! operating rules number 2: PUT SOME BLOODY WATER IN BEFORE IT BLOWS UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­PPP!

[MrBing013]

@kez259 HAHA, FAIL. when it is being dry fired the last thing you want to do is add water.

[kez259]

@MrBing013 huh, why would you not put water in when a boiler is low and why would you dry fire on purpose anyway, and if you are dry fireing for some reason on purpose then the fusible would melt well before half the building went flying half a mile across town.

[ace600000]

Yeah definitely not Nobels boilers. The room is way too clean

[steeleye65]

@ace600000 Our boiler room is clean but way more crowded than that one. This is one more example of poor management decisions making the workplace more dangerous. I left an F'D up steel mill for a boiler job because of the good old idiot boys club.

[JustDeni2002]

gosh reading the comments i didn't know people were so stupid... 1st that is the paris explosion, 2ndly he didn't die.. morons!

[eseleste]

where in paris was this at

[fulano787]

2:53 i knew i shouldnt have gone to dunkin donuts!

[Gotekk0016]

My mom was in that explosion at that dana plant.

[Tabby266]

Oops sory, my mousewheel went funcky and an I accidentaly downrated youre comment! Im sorry!

[klamatoconlimon]

I have a couple of restaurants in TN. @ 60 miles from Paris and last year we start having visits by a "boiler inspector" from the Labor Dep. Now I understand why. But these guys are a rip-off, they charge $120 a year for each water heather or CO2 tank and all they do its write the inspection date on a notepad.

[marshal1973]

The fact that you feel its a rip-off goes to show the program works. If a boiler explosion occurred as frequently as they did before the National Boards inspection program started, You would not feel that way. You can't measure what doesn't happen.

[samtorres66]

LWCO was probably bypassed

[Plataea]

Incorrectly repaired using incorrect component actually, by the owners...but it may as well have been eliminated~

[canadaguy2112ca]

@Plataea I'm guessing a boiler of this size would probably have two water columns. One would have a low water cut-off and the other column to control water level. The operator would have to acknoledge a low level knowing the other safety was bypassed. Strange....

[mandoman52]

@samtorres66 ?

[pokemonash1234]

all done for hollywood lol

[sce0569]

This is the boiler in Paris, TN. The linkage on the modulating feedwater valve had been disconnected and the low water cutoff had been modified/bypassed. The maintenance man was believed to be maually feedwater to the boiler while it was in high fire and low water condition. What can't be seen in video is boiler went thru wall behind maint man into the plant and boiler door went thru far wall into parking lot. The maint man died later at hospital.

[Plataea]

I wasnt aware that the operator had died, thanks for the info!

[Tabby266]

He o she didnt say that person died...

[actionjackson9000]

@sce0569

are you sure? it looked like you could see the guy running out of the room

[MrBing013]

@sce0569 This is not the boiler, the boiler that exploded was a cleaver brooks fire tube, not a water tube.

[madfran6]

sorry but that wasnt from a meltdown, seems more like a gas line rupture. we had a preferred industries melt down and it did not explode. now i seen a powerflame burner blowback and kick two 5ft steel doors across a room and cut thru a oil supply line. brooklyn NYC

[canadaguy2112ca]

fireside all the way.

[celticstones012957]

At two minutes and thirty seconds you can see a man running from right to left in front of the boilers. It seems likely that the explosion did not involve the boilers. Perhaps some other thing happened behind the boilers. It have my doubts as to whether anyone could be that close to an exploding Fire-side and definitely not the water side. Oh and this is not the Tenn. explosion as those boilers were Cleaver Brooks.

Just Another OE

[ALAJOHNSTONE]

It is a good thing that the guy at the start was not there when the thing exploded.

[Autreyville]

Thats not the Paris, TN explosion. In the Paris explosion, the rear tube sheet went through the back wall, through the cab of a ford truck, uprooted a tree, took out a cat-walk, and ended up 150' away from the boiler room. The boiler was propeled in the opposite direction through the wall and out into the produstion facility.

[madfran6]

now THAT's a explosion !

[bennyboots]

That's crazy, i got an email about this incident at work. I thought that they were firetubes though. The boiler in the email was running white hot on a low h2o condition due to low h20 cutoff being bypassed. Was this the plant in Paris that had the incident or was it somewhere else?

[moakley]

whats the boiler used for?

[Plataea]

Industrial boiler provided steam for extrusion process, possibly heating as well.

[asauer3]

I've seen the aftermath of a fireside explosion and there wasn't as much debris as that.

[phenforreal]

thats no boiler explosion.. If it was that camera would have been destroyed along with that building.

[mrpitea]

Agree, but scary enough. Used to work with recovery boilers. They are mad when things goes wrong...

[usbiker133t]

This doesn't look like the boiler went but the fire side. It was to instantaneous of a shock if you look at the wall when it goes. There is massive uniform deformation. Not localized like you would see with steam. Also if it were steam i do not think that guy would have survived. It doesn't take much dp across the brain to kill you.

[seanzuniga]

I do agree this is not the Paris, Tennessee boiler explosion.

I did find some pictures of the event that were circulated to a lot of engineering crews in Northern California. These boilers are not Cleaver - Brooks Firetube boilers and it is true, in the Paris explosion the boiler went through a wall and ended up 100 ft away. In this footage that grayish material may be firebox refractory meaning this may have been a firebox gas explosion! I hope these weren't the new ones installed after!

[seanzuniga]

My God, I hope that never happens to us. Then again we would never bypass the low water cut-outs or leave them broken. As far as the Feedwater regulator, was there a auxilliary feedwater system set-up?. If we had to go on manual feedwater that boiler wouldn't go into a Low water condition on my watch! This video makes all better boiler operators, Thanks!

SZ

[Plataea]

Nope, just a single electric regulator I believe~

[enthalpyclub]

So ,what caused the accident? They look like fairly new packaged watertube boilers.

[Plataea]

A number of things, low water cutout mechanisms were broken or bypassed, the feedwater regulator was inoperative and had been isolated, they were modulating feedwater by hand through the bypass valve, a low water condition eventually resulted during high firing with no operator immediatly present and....technically speaking....kaboom!

[djgritt]

I agree, it's not the Tenessee Incident. I work on Industrial Steam Boilers worldwide, & we have the Investigation report for that incident as part of our Training Programme. The Boiler did implode, then explode and was shot 100ft into the manufacturing area. The rear smoke box was blown off of the boiler and shot 100ft in the opposite direction causing the exterior wall to collapse, landing in a ditch after going across the car park and through a walkway. Still, impressive footage that, mind.

[Slikhedgehog]

That's scary stuff!

[ninevoltromeo]

whether this is the tennesee incident or not, steam explosions are a pretty serious thing. every one should be careful out there.

[eppnat]

Doesn't look like the Tennessee incident - didn't the #2 boiler go through the wall in that accident? Either way, the engineer that re-entered the boiler house after the failure should have his license suspended.

[dovenut]

This is bogus.. It is not the extrusion plant footage

[carpfart]

loks like boiling water on camera sod that

[oilpond]

Prick shoulda pressed that button stead of daydreamin A...

[mrgionni]

Whoa is this real, never mind replayed it over and saw the papers flying off the desk, was it the boiler in the right side of the frame?

[mijimindo]

Fock, I hope the operator was not there when it happened...