Wolfie Posted June 5, 2005 Report Share Posted June 5, 2005 Lawsuit claims exploding toilet burned man Friday, June 3, 2005 Posted: 10:30 AM EDT (1430 GMT) MORGANTOWN, West Virginia (AP) -- A man who says he was severely burned when a portable toilet exploded after he sat down and lit a cigarette is suing a general contractor and a coal company, accusing them of negligence. John Jenkins, 53, and his wife, Ramona Jenkins, 35, of Brave, Pennsylvania, filed the suite Tuesday in county circuit court seeking $10 million in damages from Chisler Inc. and Eastern Associated Coal Corp. The lawsuit claims Jenkins' face, neck, arms, torso and legs were severely burned last July after the cigarette ignited methane gas leaking from a pipe underneath the toilet unit. "When I struck the lighter, the whole thing just detonated -- the whole top blew off," said Jenkins, a methane power plant operator with North West Fuels Development Inc. "I can't tell you if it blew me out the door or if I jumped out." Eastern Associated owns the Blacksville property where the explosion occurred. Jenkins alleges that heavy equipment from Chisler Inc. ran over the pipelines before the explosion, causing the methane gas leak. A call to the Charleston office of Peabody Energy, the parent company of Eastern Associated Coal, was not returned. A man who answered the phone at Chisler's office in Fairview said the company would have no comment. Original source: http://premium.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/03/toilet.lawsuit.ap/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted June 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 5, 2005 Talk about an explosive development... The (poop) is really hitting the fan now... In all seriousness, who said that going to the bathroom wasn't dangerous? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mephisto Posted June 6, 2005 Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 Hey Wolfie, you wouldn't happen to be Luk3us from http://forums.cncnz.com, would you? He posted something about this, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie Posted June 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2005 No. I don't use a name like that, much less have been to that site. (Or vice versa) I saw it on another forum and so did a news search for it to get an official news reference to post it with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.KellyCHAOS. Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 funny story, and very unusual. I'm full of weird stories about my life and other stuff, but I've never heard something as werd as that.Wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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