{"id":3831,"date":"2012-02-28T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2012-02-28T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T03:09:00","slug":"horse-shoe-causes-explosion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/horse-shoe-causes-explosion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"HORSE SHOE CAUSES EXPLOSION"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>             <\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">One for the strange but true column \u2026<\/span><\/div>\n<div><i><span lang=\"EN-US\">Bloodhorse<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-US\"> reports <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">that a Feb. 10 explosion at a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at a Florida equine facility that killed one woman and a horse was caused by contact from the horse\u2019s steel shoe with the chamber.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">In the report, the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office concluded that the explosion at\u00a0KESMARC Florida in Ocala, Fla., was an accident. The blast also injured a second woman.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Killed in the explosion was 28-year-old Erica Marshall, who was employed by KESMARC. Sorcha Moneley, 33, of London, England, who was at the facility to look at the oxygen chamber for possible future use in Europe, was injured during the accident.\u2028\u2028According to the report, Moneley said the horse in the chamber had steel shoes on his hooves. He began kicking and knocked off a part of the chamber&#8217;s protective padding, revealing a metal surface. When the horse kicked again, Moneley said, a spark was created when one of the steel shoes connected with the metal surface.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">As Marshall attempted to return the chamber to normal pressure, Moneley left to call emergency personnel, the report said. As Moneley departed to call 911, according to the report, \u201cshe looked back and saw Erica staring at the monitor and crying.\u201d Moneley told the investigators she then heard two explosions in rapid succession. Moneley said the second explosion was much larger than the first. Moneley said she was about 20 feet away from the chamber when the explosion occurred and that the second one \u201cknocked her down and took her breath away,\u201d according to the report.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\">Moneley also said she &#8220;was aware that there were some problems with the valves on the chamber leaking\u201d and that the facility manager was attempting to have the problem reviewed by an engineer.\u2028\u2028According to the report, KESMARC manager Leonora Byrne said that Marshall had operated the chamber for two years.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One for the strange but true column \u2026 Bloodhorse reports that a Feb. 10 explosion at a hyperbaric oxygen chamber at a Florida equine facility that killed one woman and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.rockylhc.com\/2015\/elizapark\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}