Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. · leaf 63
st passed, reports and news items reached us of a number of seriouslow pressure boiler accidents. One case in point is the explosion ofthe boiler shown in the accompanying illustration, which, from theinformation obtainable, seems to have been due to faulty fitting upand possibly also carelessness… … Exploded Heating Boiler. of the all too common fault of not having a relief valve attacheddirectly to the boiler. Our inspectors have occasion to belabor thislatter detail very frequently in inspection reports, and to our sorrowwe find in not a few instances that an unduly large amount of argu-ment…
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