Frac Iron Failure

2013-"The line boss had told the treater to shutdown and he was about to when the company man said stay in it. The line boss saw it leaking on the 3.5 pins sand and said it would blow because he had seen it before. When they hit flush and all the sand was clear of the pipes it blew -that's why he was filming it. The line boss new what was going to happen. There were 18 pumps on location.
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[@WallaceDunn]

I work for a major manufacturer of that iron. That's why proper installation and maintenance are so important. I've seen directly, or the after-effects of 5 iron separations under pressure. 1 fatality and 1 injury.

[@isaacpadron7092]

This fool waited for it to blow, this has happened a couple times in my 2 years in the oil field

[@ThunderLips730]

They probably saw a drip and were trying to flush it. They obviously didn't make it

[@nicholascantu7910]

Well boys cab up looks like frac is down

[@colinbrown9044]

haha we had our hiding spots

[@sponduli]

hey how long is the pad gonna be down for?

[@nickl2268]

crazy shit, haven't seen this happen yet

[@dannyprovolone1608]

It'll sand off 😂😂

[@mr.e0311]

Pff.. Its just a wheep hole brah

[@DJH-ro1vv]

Grab a gear on pump 8.

[@dannyboi20twelve]

Water transfers fault

[@matt3727]

Sands fault

[@justinsheedy2341]

its the fuel guy cmon

[@Hellhound23691]

Blender error

[@erod4489]

I used to do pm's on all frac equipment: pumps, tractors, blenders, anything on site with an engine. Some hands didn't tighten the collar right on a pump hose routing to the missle and we were righting down our equipment hours and the test ran everything on the line, that hose blew off and was spraying so hard it whipped that hose with what a 40 lb. Collar slaping against everything and blew out 1.5 water before they got it shut off. I was talking with the frac treater and as soon as it blew i shoved him out of its path since his back was facing it and army crawled under the pumps to the other side and made it out the line before he did. He was drenched. Man was he pissed.

[@erod4489]

Seen a guy get a diesel can of fuel you know a safe plastic one and had it right by the data van and of course ignited from all the static and instead of getting the extinguisher thats on the front of every tractor he kicked under the data van and it was just flaming away, had to evacuate everyone in the data van while others put it out.

[@luciankristov6436]

3 inch swivel 15k failed it looked like

[@noeanzaldua2000]

I seen that in person but that right there is a hard shut down that guy should of said hard shut down so the data van and pump operator knows to shut down

[@misterchango]

No body care to cut charge or shut down? But lets film it right?

[@xxxtenunknown8262]

misterchango81 MIJO read the video description.

[@rrdads]

Killing charge will do nothing in that situation being that its wellside of the check valves. Man thats scary shit

[@stx3151]

Selltle down itll make it to flush lmao

[@Cancerfied92]

Right off that candy cane