Safety issues with Co2

[TonyF]

Just found this and thought it might be of intrest to some of you.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released this Safety Warning for Paintball Guns yesterday.

http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml04/04105.html

This is following the two deaths in the States, caused by the valves unscrewing from Co2 bottles!

 

[TOOLE]

A pretty vital warning if i ever saw one

 

[TonyF]

maybe....

It might be a good idea if sites around the U.K. adopted some of the suggestions, before a similar incident occurs over here. At least it would show how serious we all are about safety!

 

[the 1]

Ok I might be more carefully when using them at work!!! I thought that the only danger was frostbite!!

 

[F3Z]

Hmm when i started working i almost did this, got about 2 screws through undoing the valve and then realised THANK FECK! Dahh well ill no not to do it now, and all of our bottles have been tested to make sure its not easy to do anymore. Besides after working there for so long now if i die doing it its my own stupid fault

 

[ciaran.mooney]

NPF has already put in effect safety precautions, after new of valves coming away from bottles.

All marshals are told to unscrew bottles towards the floor, so in a worse case scenario the bottle just drives itself into the floor.

 

[ChiZZerS]

thats bad

at first i was thinking how could a c02 blottle be a projectile...
as when you open the valve it just hisses and there is not enouch force to moove it (much) but certanly not a life threatening projectile!

but then i saw on the pics that the valve had acctuly unscrewed form the nech of the bottle!

now all we need is this to happen with 4500 psi air!
BOOM!

 

[ChiZZerS]

another reason why shops shouldnt sell entry level markers..

you can get inexperianced people massing around with things they dont know aboute.

for example.. you get hundreds of kids each year asking their
parents to get them paintball guns...
and do you think his/her parent would go out and buy an E-blade?..
no.. they would buy the cheepest one they could...
and then pass it to their kids to play around with...
the kid nor their parents knowing anything about paintball equip..
and im not just talking about compressed gases...
safety issues.. leagul FPS... how far you need to be away from a road ect... and after all that you get tw@ts shooting cars and people in the street..

either you have to play for a team to buy a gun..
or get licences....


(sorry for the bad spelling )
or this kind of stuff is gonna keep happening!

 

[Dark Warrior]

And he is speaking from experience