DENVER – A mechanic for United Airlines was killed Sunday afternoon as he tried to depressurize a large fire extinguisher at Denver International Airport.
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The accident happened in one of United’s maintenance hangars. According to Denver Police Detective Virginia Lopez, the pressure released from the extinguisher very rapidly and the large metal cylinder shot into the air “like a cannon ball”. The mechanic died from the impact.You have to agree it hardly matters. Whatever it was it really sounds like something outside of approved safety procedures, or an equipment failure. Either way, just sad.The same can happen with those CO2 tanks used for mixing soft drinks at fast food stands.
They have to be chained to a wall, because if the thing falls and the top breaks off, it will become a rocket for a few seconds while the CO2 blasts out.Any accidental death like this is tragic, but I think there’s something double-ly tragic (or tragically ironic, at least) about being killed by something that’s supposed to be a piece of safety equipment.