At least 50 people, mostly children, received burn injuries in a major blast at a liquid petroleum gas cylinder filling shop in Hyderabad’s Preetabad area on Thursday, health officials said.
Cylinder blasts incidends have increased in recent years nationwide, as there is an increased demand of LPG cylinders in household and commercial use, due to natural gas shortages, here are some simple tips to avoid such incidents.
HOW TO KNOW IF YOUR COOKING GAS CYLINDER HAS EXPIRED
🗼Do you know that cooking gas cylinders have expiry date.
🗼A gas cylinder that is used beyond the expiry date invites hazard and should be returned to the distributor.
🗼Understanding the expiry date is important than the gas inside.
🗼Consumers should always check the expiry date of a gas cylinder before refilling.
🗼Consumers, should not use expired cooking gas cylinder.
🗼Before you buy any cooking gas cylinder, always check for the production and expiry date.
🗼Expired cooking gas cylinder are not safe to use, so please be careful.
🗼Each cylinder comes with 3 vertical stay plates (side stems) near its head. One of the side stem plates carries some alpha numeric code which is the expiry date of that particular gas cylinder
HOW TO DECODE THE EXPIRY DATE
The expiry date of the cooking gas cylinder is coded with alphabetical order, A B,C D, in quarters, which stands for months it will expire, while the numeric code stands for the year it will expire.
🅰️Letter A stands for January to March.
🅱️Letter B stands for April to June.
🧡Letter C stands for July to September.
🧡Letter D stands for October to December
For example, if the vertical stay plate carries the expiry date of B -9, it means that, the cooking gas cylinder will expire on June 2009, and if it is written C -16, it means that it will expire on September 2016.
So, be careful to avoid domestic accident.
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