My condolences to the family…
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20120424-NEWS-120429898
Oh sh*t…that’s a tragedy.
Man, that is just terrible.
i’ll raise a brew to a fallen brother. so sorry to hear it.
Tragic news
Sad news.
Think safety when brewing my friends.
Ugh, bummer.
That’s crazy. Do kegs have a certification/testing process like with SCUBA tanks?
That’s awful! I can’t understand how in the world that could have happened.
Terrible news.
Maybe more information will come out after the investigation as to what actually happened.
Paul
I’m guessing faulty or defective equipment. It could have been a bad keg or maybe some pressure relief valve failed closed. Not good either way. 
I’ve learned that it was a plastic soda keg that was returned to the brewery for some reason - not a stainless keg normally used by the brewery. Unknown whether it was highly pressurized when it was brought in, or whether it was over-pressurized on site when it failed. Sounds like he was attempting to purge the remnants from the keg (or was about to) when it blew.
I was at Cigar City a couple of weeks ago. The tour guide said one of their plastic half barrel kegs blew just a couple of days prior to my being there. Nobody was hurt, but there were some damaged fluorescent lights hanging. They reckon it was a faulty pressure relief, but that would mean they must have taken it past 130psi while filling it.
That’s awful man.
Jeez I’d think a partition or something would be between the keg and worker. ???
One of the many reasons why lots of people are going the KeyKeg route. Makes me eye my corny kegs suspiciously…
Terrible news indeed.
Plastic kegs have max pressure at 60 psi.
I think this is the same with SS kegs.
I have cornies that are stamped 130 psi max.
I’d never heard of KeyKegs before, but they look pretty cool. It seems like a lot of small brewers would be into not having kegs to buy/lease and wash.
They’re basically plastic bags surrounded by cardboard. The CO2 is pushed around the bag and so doesnt’ actually come into contact with the beer (which is already carbed). I am quite surprised that people in the US haven’t heard of them more. Cost is about $15 / 30 L (7.5 gal) keg, they are super light to transport and don’t have the sort of risks (theft, explosion, etc) that ‘normal’ kegs do.
Only downside is that they require a special connector.