[docfr8]

Some people were born to achieve such milestones

[scorpion9]

Added the frames showing the explosion:

[scorpion9]

Originally Posted by scorpion9 ↗

Added the frames showing the explosion:

[crainey1]

Happened so damn fast

[Grimlyfe]

Yes because torching a sealed oil drum is always the best way to go about it.

[houseoftechno]

I knew somebody who did exactly that and died instantly. Hit in the head with the exploded drum lid. He was a business owner and lifelong mechanic and welder. My guess is these folks used a cutting torch on a sealed drum, but perhaps a very volatile agent will explode a drum even with the bung cap pulled.

[Lrrr]

I bet those safety glasses helped

[Konamama]

Originally Posted by scorpion9 ↗

I looked at the footage frame by frame, and looks like the whole barrel hit him in the face...just just the lid or the tool in his hand. You can see 1 fame before he flies backwards that the barrel pops up from the ground...towards his face. Next frame, the barrel is deflected away from him. Newton's laws of physics say that each action has an equal and opposite reaction. So, that barrel must have hit him in the face...blasting his head backwards so violently that it pulled his whole body backwards.
You can see that in 1 frame before he starts flying backwards. His body is still, but his head is bent so far back that it could have broken his neck at that point.

Probably. But also can’t the shock wave from a blast knock you over like that? Anyway. Poor dude just trying to support his family in a country that has no OSHA. :(

[DocuRealMoose]

Now did it kill the dude cutting or the guy just off camera that was directly in the path of the explosion?