Personal Injury Law

Freak accident injures cruise passenger in Fort Lauderdale

By Lipcon, Margulies & Alsina, P.A.

An exploding carbon dioxide canister injured a cruise ship passenger at Port Everglades on Sunday, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.

The accident happened at about 10 a.m. in the 2000 block of Eller Drive when a worker threw a fire extinguisher into the back of a truck. The extinguisher exploded, shot out the truck's window and hit a passenger getting off a cruise ship, knocking him to the ground, BSO said.

Paramedics took the passenger to Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale with non-life-threatening injuries.

A second container exploded about a half hour later when a crew member aboard a ship was unloading a carbon dioxide canister. The nozzle was jostled and the canister exploded out of his arms. No one was hurt in that incident, BSO said.

Full post as published by Cruise Ship Law on April 26, 2009 (boomark / email).