[Mr Anonymous]

I have personally seen firsthand the aftermath of a compressor tank explosion. Granted, it was a 20-ish? gallon horizontal job, with wheels for mobility. Very commonly available. The tank seam was on the bottom, closest to the floor, where the condensation accumulates. .It belonged to some friends of ours. The destruction was immensely worse that I would have expected. It opened up from the bottom along the seam. This massive pressure causes a handful of things. This propelled it with some sort of triagonal trajectory, leaving marks in both the wall and the ceiling. The 16' garage door was destroyed from the blast, and it also broke the door to the house as well as the parts of the doorjamb. Shrapnel from the tank messed up the sides of two vehicles, necessitating both having their entire sides repaired and repainted. I don't know what the total was for all of the damage, but it had to have been quite substantial. Why it didnt just leak out is a very good question, and I do not have the answer. Maybe just some anomaly in manufacturing? No idea. Until I saw this, I didn't even consider it a possibility that it could do this much damage.

It has made me consider some sort of anchoring mechanism for the two different 60 gallon compressors I have.