Man Killed by Tire Blowout

Oldtractorfun · Oct 21, 2013

In the local paper, reads like he was blowing up a tire and it blew out. Sounds like a hard working young man, feel sorry for his wife and family.
Be carefull just never know when that one little mistake will get ya.

fixerupper · Oct 21, 2013

That's sad. It could happen to any of us. Every time I air up a tire I've just put on the rim I'm jumpy. Jim

504-1 · Oct 21, 2013

My brother had one blow up and he was just airing up a flat.

Dr. Walt · Oct 22, 2013

That's why they make Tire Cages. If you can bend 4" pipe & weld halfway decently they're easy to make. OR, you can chain the tire & rim in two places (opposite each other). May be time consuming, but it's better than being injured or dead.

jefftractorguy2630 · Oct 22, 2013

Tragic and sad.... guys, would filling tires with fluid be safer?

the tractor vet · Oct 22, 2013

Ah yep that can happen , back in the good old days of the split ring wheels on semi's that was about and everyday thing More then once i had them blow while airing up on the truck . Was at a tire shop one day getting a couple tires fixed and they were mounting up some new tires for a guy and had it in the cage when it let go with about a 100 lbs. in it , let just say that you could not put a 16.9x24 in a cage built for a 10.00 22 . A buddy was airing up a new drive tire on a new rim and was setting on it while it was laying on the floor of his shop when it blew with around 80 Lbs in it . Lucky for him it just blew him off and the tire went airborne and hit the roff and knocked to panels up . HEard of a guy that was mounting up a 30.5x32 and it let go , they just found pieces and parts of him.

gene bender · Oct 22, 2013

No they can blow a rim also pressure is pressure.

MarkB_MI · Oct 22, 2013

split rim?

Anonymous-0 · Oct 22, 2013

I bought a chuck that locks on the valve stem, set my regulator at correct pressure and put tire out against the wood pile and forget about it until it is up to pressure.

RBnSC · Oct 22, 2013

Had this happen yesterday delivering a load of corn. No one was hurt but it did mess my day. Fixed and handled many hundreds of them in my life. I always gave them respect and was as careful as was humanly possible.
Ron

RBnSC · Oct 22, 2013

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2badlybent · Oct 22, 2013

Had a wagon tire blow while I was filling it with air. It was just a blow-out but the sound cause me to belive I had bought the farm.

ericlb · Oct 22, 2013

i just hate that it seems a blowout on duals 9 times out of 10 will take the other tire out too either with shrapnell or the sudden transfer of weight to 1 tire i think i had 2 blowouts which left a tire still inflated on the other wheel, the others got them both, usually as far from help as possible

rrlund · Oct 22, 2013

I've had a few close calls. I put a liner in a 40 inch tractor tire,inflated it and went to town. Came home and it had exploded with so much force that it blew a fender right off an Oliver 70,even dented the seat. I had a 20 inch split rim manure spreader tire and wheel on the shop floor. VERY luckily the ring was on the underside the way it was laying. I was on top of it on my hands and knees inflating it and the ring blew off. It blew me right out the door.

JimIA · Oct 22, 2013

A few years ago at another dealership in the area a fellow was killed by a truck tire. I know one of the guys who witnessed it. The guy leaned over the tire and was putting air in the back side when the sidewall blew out, such an impact to his chest it killed him instantly. Fellow was 70 years old and had done it a million times.

hd6gtom · Oct 22, 2013

They don't have to be split rims, a tubeless tire run flat or even low will zipper on you and blow out. I've seen several over the years, thank GOD we never had anyone get hurt. My good friend, in another shop, was walking by a tire that had been repaired several hours before. The tire and split rim was leaning up against a pile of repaired tires when it blew out, killing him almost instantly. THAT IS WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS TAKE YOUR TIRES TO A PROFSSIONAL TIRE REPAIR SHOP. If you repaired that tire and it blew out killing someone, YOU and YOU alone are responsible for that persons death. The courts have upheld this time after time.

641Dave · Oct 22, 2013

I vaguely remember a guy getting killed from a semi rim he was airing up here in Corsicana back in the eighties but I can't remember his name. Scary stuff.

That's the second time in years that I've thought about that. The other time was on this forum as well when someone was talking about the dangers of welding on a tire rim with the tire on and aired up and how pressure can build to the point of the tire exploding.

Rick Kr · Oct 22, 2013

My second cousin had one catch him in the face, broke his nose bad and cut up his face. Luckily, that was his only damage everything healed up, only a few scars.

This was a standard 16" wagon tire. It was an older tire that was a little weather-checked, he was airing it up, and it let go, tearing and climbing the rim.

Rick

old · Oct 22, 2013

I have known of many who have got hurt or dead due to incorrect tire mount and airing up. Worked at a tire shop that had the imprint of a tire on the ceiling form one that had blown off a car rim

Mathias NY · Oct 22, 2013

Pressure is pressure, but gasses are compressible, fluids are not. A failure with fluid will not carry the resulting shrapnel as far. This is why boilers and other pressure vessels are hydro-tested rather than pneumatic tested.

Billy Shafer · Oct 22, 2013

When I was in charge of a motor pool in the Guard. I made my tire man use the cage and a 30 ft air hose. Hooked the hose to the tire. Air it up and let it set for a half hour.

Saw a guy killed when I was a kid. Rim came off and just about cut him in to. Never forget it

Oldtractorfun · Oct 22, 2013

Forgot to put the link to the newspaper story.
Sounds like he was a really experianced tire man.
Workplace Death

Larry B. 1486 · Oct 22, 2013

Back about 30 years at a tire - service station, a man brought his AC 190 in for repair on his rear tire. After repairing the rear tire they used a lock on air chuck. While airing up the tire, someone pulled up to the gas pump. He walked out of the shop to pump gas leaving the air chuck on the valve stem. It slipped his mind about the tire and went back into the station. The tire shop was behind the station. About 20 min later he was reminded after everyone for a 5 mile radius heard the explosion. Lucky no one was in the shop. Took the fender, steering wheel completely off. Ruined some of the sheet metal. Broke the overhead door and six roof trusses. A pickup truck was inside the shop, no glass left in it. Tools came off the walls. No one knows for sure how many psi before it let go. The compressor was set at 150 psi.

donjr · Oct 22, 2013

Guy down the road a couple of miles from here had one cut loose on him many years ago, before I knew him. Couple of friends say he used to be a nice looking fellow, but he is now just plug ugly. While he's lucky to be alive, he has half of a crooked nose, a lopsided forehead and half of one ear.....

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