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Shortly before 5:30 a.m., a manhole cover lifted off from its launching pad on Hill Street in Old Louisville and blasted through Pam Smith's roof, decking a coffee table in the process.
December 1 – In Winchester, Massachusetts, a lighted match dropped into a sewer manhole by an employee of the Arlington gaslight company set off an explosion which injured five gas line repairmen and blew the steel manhole cover 30 feet into the air. The gas ignited along the sewer line into Rangeley, where two more manhole covers were blown ...
[2] [7] [14] Manhole covers shot up into the sky and came crashing down with great destructive force. [14] [15] [16] One manhole cover crashed completely through the ceiling and floor of a third-floor apartment on Second Street, and another narrowly missed a child when it landed in a house at the corner of 9th and Hill streets. [15]
February 4 – A family was blown up in Indianapolis, Indiana when a house was demolished by a natural gas explosion. It is supposed that the gas accumulated in the cellar and seeping through the floor above, ignited at an open fireplace. A family with four children occupied the upper portion of the house: one dead and five fatally injured. [61]
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A round manhole and its cover. A manhole cover is a removable plate forming the lid over the opening of a manhole, an opening large enough for a person to pass through that is used as an access point for an underground vault or pipe. It is designed to prevent anyone or anything from falling in, and to keep out unauthorized persons and material.
This is the bizarre moment manhole covers were captured bouncing up and down on a road in northwestern China. In the video, shot in the city of Shangluo in Shaanxi Province on August 1, a couple ...