You can’t run fast enough: Pay attention to jobsite flammable, combustible fluid handling

Equipment World Staff (EQW)

Apr 14, 2014

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The demonstration: Testers ignited one gallon of gasoline inside a car truck. The resulting explosion blasted the trunk lid 80 feet in the air, making it apparent that anyone in the car would have been killed.

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