Toilet explodes, injured man suing

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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Toilet explodes, injured man suing
By Associated Press

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - A man who says he was severely burned when a portable toilet exploded after he sat down and lit a cigarette is suing a general contractor and a coal company, accusing them of negligence.

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"When I struck the lighter, the whole thing just detonated the whole top blew off," said Jenkins, a methane power plant operator with North West Fuels Development Inc. "I can't tell you if it blew me out the door or if I jumped out."

Eastern Associated owns the Blacksville property where the explosion occurred. Jenkins alleges that heavy equipment from Chisler Inc. ran over the pipelines before the explosion, causing the methane gas leak.

A call to the Charleston office of Peabody Energy, the parent company of Eastern Associated Coal, was not returned. A man who answered the phone at Chisler's office in Fairview said the company would have no comment.

http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~2903035,00.html#

[tinrobot]

1. Wow... I bet the company he's suing

...is in deep shit.

[lonestarnot]

2. Must have been a bushitler toilet, full of methane....LOL

[question everything]

5. Life imitates art

There was a program about such in event in the now deceased "the Practice." On top of that, the poor person was Chinese with very poor English. And apparently he was warned not to go but he really really had to...

I think that he won, in the end.

[flakey_foont]

3. Good luck getting money

from "Chisler, INC" ,,,,,

[Horse with no Name]

4. I doubt it was the methane from the pipelines

He prolly just cut a big ole nasty fart and it ignited.
I've heard that lighting farts is a favorite pasttime in parts of the South.

[lonestarnot]

6. Precisely! LOL

[Horse with no Name]

7. Seriously

A guy only sits down in the bathroom for one reason--a toxic dump.
:evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

9. Especially in a J John

[Paranoid_Portlander]

12. And yet he works in a methane plant. How ironic.

He seems to have difficulty getting away from the methane, like it follows him around.

[salin]

8. er... don't porta potties use chemicals in their 'flush' system?

what idiot would light up? sheez.

[EVDebs]

10. So THAT's why they're called "Thunder Huts" !

[GRLMGC]

11. Eww

But why would you light a cigarette while taking a dump in a porto potty? Ewwwww

[Cooley Hurd]

13. Didn't this also happen to Frank Burns on M*A*S*H?