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Join Date: May 2002
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you might want to know this
Just yesterday at the local gas station guy was filling a gas can in the bed of his truck and it exploded from static electricity. He got second degree burns. So, if you are ever filling a gas can you're supposed to take it out of the vehicle. Also, when filling you're truck you're supposed to ground yourself on something metal before pumping. Just thought you all might want to know this
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static electricity, damn that's a new one... wonder what the odds on that happening are...???
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Well, I have indeed heard of this before. It's been in print and on TV. *Problem most likely to occur if you have a plastic bedliner*. Rare, but obviously possible. Good thing to make everyone aware of! Sorry to hear of the incident though, hope the guy recovers OK.
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Apparently the static electricity thing isn't all that rare... especially when filling portable gas cans. We just had a presentation about this very thing at a work-sponsored safety meeting. Doesn't happen all the time, but happens routinely.
I guess cell phones can do the same thing, if they ring while your filling your gas can or vehicle and your not properly grounded. Not sure if this has actually occurred or not, but theoretically it could happen. Can never be too careful, I guess.
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The Cell Phone thing is an urban legend from what I have read.
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you all didnt know that? wow. yhis was hammered into my head as a kid...
anytime fluid is moving it can cause a charge. usualy it doesnt build enough to cause a spark, but you do not want to fill anything in the back of your truck. (rhino lining did get sued over this).
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Seems to happen every 2-3 years locally. Especially in the winter months when the air is really dry. Good practice to touch the vehicle with your hand before and while you put the pump into the filler spout. Otherwise the pump nozzle will be what the static jumps across.
Also, while on the subject, in your house or garage, don't store gasoline powered anything near a gas water heater, furnace, etc. with a pilot light. The fumes will ignite. I never thought anything of it until I heard about a family who lost there house to fire due to a the lawn mower in the garage near their water heater. |
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Sliding across the seat then getting out and putting the pump in can cause a spark. They way that you should always touch something metal after you get out of the vehicle. A lady burnt up not long ago and was caught on camera filling her tank.
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i've seen it covered on tv alot over the pasr year!! i've also noticed more and more gas pumps with warning stickers on them about static electricity dangers
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They have warnings on all gas pumps around here about cell phones now and my mother in-law who works at a gas station was told by her supervisor to shut any pump down that has someone on a cell phone using it.
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Here's the static electricity article on the same site as posted above, but this article is true, unlike the cell phone article.
http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/static.asp
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Just read a great article on this in the GSRA newsletter.Cell phones,static from the seat or dry air,bedliners and touching the vehicle were all sited as factual problems.One thing I found interesting was that women are more likely to cause this by returning to the car while the pump is running.I guess they also tend to wear more nylon that causes static electricity.Men tend to have problems with it because they are more likely to fill gas cans.I always unload and load the cans for filling.Touching the vehicle is also something I do just from habit.Usually it's the door or filler door.My bedliner is a spray in which seems to ground to the bed but I'm not taking any chances.
The lighting cell phones are more likely to cause problems because of higher draw on the batt. If we get the attachments back up I would post the article.
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I've read a bit about this. It seems that it happens
mainly to women! I'm told it is because most women start pumping the gas and then get back into the vehicle. Since they generally are wearing more synthetics/nylons, getting back into the vehicle generates a static charge. They then get out to take the gas nozzle out of the filler neck or possibly top off and when they touch the car metal, they get a spark and possibly an explosion. Jim M |
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