Plumber MAPP gas torch facial injury incident

Plumber soldering copper pipe while holding cell phone and smoking cigar, using lit MAP torch as a hammer, split the neck, woman walking by saw 8-foot flame shoot into his face.

I actually represent the company that makes these cylinders. People do some interesting things with them. There was a plumber in Southern California lying on his stomach on the grass with a hole where there was a copper pipe — he wanted to sweat the copper elbow. He had a cell phone in one hand, a cigar in his mouth, and he was starting to solder the copper pipe. But the elbow moved on him, so he started using the lit torch as a hammer to get it back in place while he's talking on the phone, smoking a cigar. He split the neck. A woman walking by with her granddaughter down the sidewalk saw an 8-foot flame shoot out of the hole right in his face. He wasn't happy.