Opinion ID: 1215347
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 8

Heading: Test Results Admitted

Text: Conclusions from certain testing were received in evidence. Williams took the regulators, the gauges, the syrup tank and the top to Value Engineering Laboratory in Alexandria for study to determine the cause of the accident. There, the lid, which after striking plaintiff had ricocheted off the ceiling causing a dent in a ceiling timber, was placed on a new Firestone tank. The original tank had become distorted in the accident through excessive pressure, but the lid appeared to be undamaged. When the test tank was pressurized, the tank with lid held pressure and the safety release valve on the lid properly operated at approximately 130 psi. The interior parts of the two operating gauges were found to be damaged as the result of high pressure, accounting for the positions of the needles on those instruments. Likewise, a diaphragm and a tube inside the accident regulator had been damaged in the incident due to the high pressure. Before these regulator parts were repaired, source pressure from a CO2 tank was infused through the regulator and pressure in excess of 800 psi was emitted.