Ohio woman has lucky escape as gas canister travels 1,400 feet and punches hole in her house.
A woman had walked out of her room just moments before a 100-pound canister came crashing into her home Sunday, according to Hamilton Police Sgt. Brian Robinson.
The compressed air cylinder was accidentally launched about 1,400 feet away from the woman’s Home. It happened as a demolition company was cutting up steel and metal at the old Beckett Paper Mill building.
“Turned it into basically a flying missile that shot somewhere a 1,000 to 1,500 feet across rooftops of a neighbourhood where it bounced off the street and into the side of a building,” Robinson said. The cylinder left a gouge in the road and a hole in the house.
The homeowner was not injured. “It could have killed someone very easily,” Robinson said. “Someone, something was taking care of her that day.”
A Hamilton demolition company has taken responsibility for the canister, Hamilton Police Chief Craig Bucheit posted on social media Monday.
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