Health Check

OSHA statistics in general, and severe injury and fatality reports in general, are available to the general public at https://www.osha.gov/data.

David Pipes

Metal beer keg, you say now? That sounds like a moving goal post to me. Also, very few people would have access to the OSHA reports, especially since I'd guess many bar owners would do their best to keep those things from being reported if they happened on their watch. (I'm not trying to say that's *reasonable* behavior. It's just that 100% of the bar owners I've interacted with to a significant extent and am remembering at this moment struck me as the sort of people who would evade all possible governmental interactions they could.)

Some Ed

But shipping Renee/Elliot/Clinton/Brun just feels off for some reason. Like the end points would just prefer to be roommates, rather than entangled through all of that.

Some Ed

how about... both

MrGamy

Elliot, you fell for it. Don't feel bad, I've done the same.

Ted Van Roekel

how can you ship Renee/Elliot when it is so much cuter to ship Elliot/Clinton!?!?

OK, using a vessel with no pressure relief for heating and pressurizing water is just Darwinism in action, and honestly part of me hopes it succeeds prior to you passing on those genes and behaviors. I would also argue that there are many things that would fail before the keg did making a metal beer keg explosion bordering on the impossible. Change my mind with cited OSHA reports.

Jim Feldman

Given that the Horrible Revelation stocks stuff like Wurmvater Totenkopfgeburtstag, a simple explosion might be one of the less catastrophic keg-related mishaps that could occur there (see https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3342 ).

William Cole

A few years back in the US, there were... plastic kegs. Only one fatality, was during cleaning. There were lawsuits and there were other exploding kegs.

Ardent Slacker

That's fair

Bagge

boooooooooo

LH

A box of opossums is a seriously dangerous weapon.

PixelThis

Oh, did he ever walk into THAT one...

Joseph Bonnar

The beer keg was already a bit upset. It didn't take much to set it off.

Adam Abbott

Welp...I'm on that Renee/Elliott ship.

"I better squeeze your biceps, to make sure they're fine. Ooh, they're fine all right."

Shane Wegner

So emotional, this comic. Another moving experience.

BobC

It can happen. People bypass safeguards all the time. Please make sure your regulators are installed properly and in working order. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1455480

Chris K

I have a half-barrel keg in my shed that we use for potable water when camping. It has no safety pressure relief system. It has a fitting you screw a tap onto, with a big ball and spring valve at the top. The tap itself has a pressure valve, yes, but the keg does not. We have, at times, set it on a propane burner (the one that came with our turkey fryer/seafood boiler) and used it to create warm pressurized water for a shower. So no, if the keg is merely stored and not actively tapped, it can absolutely explode. Horrendously unlikely, but possible.

Buck Caldwell

I started to write something in agreement, then I realized.... AI robots. Orbiting science station with holographic concierge. Fay's delicious bottom. All things that are impossible in our world... so now I'm thinking that they have super flimsy beer kegs that explode with the slightest provocation.

Tom wilson

For any one keg, absolutely. For all of the kegs at a particular bar, probably. For all the kegs in Massachusetts, maybe. For all of the kegs in the US, this year... I'm not feeling that lucky. For all the kegs in the world over the lifetime of Questionable Content, I'd bet there's been some explosions. I hope nobody was hurt. (I think the chances are good for any one keg explosion for nobody to be around, so nobody hurt.)

Some Ed

This (the exploding keg) is soooo unlikely to happen that it borders on the impossible (assuming it's not tossed into a fire). The CO2 regulator on the tank would have to fail (and they usually fail closed). There are multiple seals that will likely fail before the keg does, the plastic hose of the gas feed and finally there's an OP relief valve at the keg. I'm not saying it couldn't, but there's a lot to go wrong to make it happen. OTOH Brun does seem to be the nexus of catastrophe.

Jim Feldman

No opossum? That sounds awfully similar to something an opossum would say...

VC

Except Elliott would have volunteered in a second if he thought of it.

Carl Fink

They're not at work.

JD

You are an amazing graphic delight creator. Thanks!!!

Shlom

Yes, for all her "you just want to see her sleeping", she grabs two handfuls of arm pretty quickly.

Devin Gates

Oh she's a clever one

R L

NGL I thought this might go somewhere else. And that's on grown up stories.

Adam Daw

Hahahaha what smooth coercion tactics

A clever trap!

Flounder

And Renee, does Jim have to have another talk about sexual harassing Elliot?

Michael Boettger

Good god, Renee.

Miyaa

Caring, but opportunistic, lol

Lord Crusade

So they are in the process of moving!

Michael Boettger