EXPLOSION OF KEG
Gas Build-Up Blamed (Nst. Press Association) WELLINGTON. May 13. Professor S N. Slater, professor of chemistry at Victoria University, said today he thought a great build-up of gases in a keg of beer was responsible for the death of Richard Duncan Simpson, aged 21, when the keg exploded in his face during a dance tn Marton on Saturday
night. Professor Slater said: “Carbon dioxide is normally produced during fermentation and there is always the possibility that enclosed containers holding fermented liquors build up great pressures.
"T think this is what could have happened in this accident which seems to be an isolated incident”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30130, 14 May 1963, Page 14
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