Many people enjoy drinking carbonated beverages, wines, and other sparkling beverages for celebration events or just as an everyday occurrence to enjoy their food and getting together with family and friends. It is safe to say 9 out of 10 people in the country have a carbonated beverage in their kitchen right now, and that 10 out of 10 people have ever purchased, opened and consumed a carbonated beverage within their lifetime. But carbonated, sparkling and bottle fermented beverages have a downside, and that is that they can be dangerous to open the bottles.
Why Do Carbonated Beverages Explode?
To answer this question, we have to go back to the bottling manufacturing process. Bottles are filled and manufactured at bottling plants. They are supposed to be tested, reviewed, opened, checked and monitored for quality control. For example, if at some point in the manufacturing process there are too many “bubbles” put into any one bottle, the system of quality control should find this issue and adjust the machines accordingly.
How Does the Carbonation Process Work with Carbonated and Sparkling Beverages?
This is a great question, and we have all of the answers. You’ll need to put your scientific thinking cap on for this one. First and foremost, carbonated beverages are not carbonated in the bottle, they are carbonated in the beverage. That’s right, the bubbles are added to the beverage itself, not to the bottle. This applies for beer, sparkling water, sparkling wine or for carbonated soft drinks such as soda pops, as well. The carbonation enhances the flavor and sensory experience of drinking a carbonated beverage. It helps the consumer enjoy the aroma release, feel of bubbles in the mouth, and the perception of tastes from the flavoring.
The carbonated process includes fermentation, natural carbonation and gas injection as the three ways to carbonate a beverage. Remember, carbonation in a beverage is just carbon dioxide or CO2 that is injected into the drink. When the CO2 later dissolves in the liquid, it produces a second type of fermentation for beer, sparkling wine or even champagne. Some natural carbonation comes form carbonated water as it is from a natural spring, but gases are injected into some waters, beer, soft drinks and sparkling wine at a very high pressure. That pressure is injected at up to 1,200 pounds per square inch! The fizz when you open a carbonated beverage is the gas escaping, but it is a planned release of sorts. It is also why if you leave a carbonated beverage out on the counter, it loses the fizz and becomes flat – it just shows all of the CO2 has escaped into the air.
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A Scientific Experiment Gone Wrong!
Every carbonated beverage that you have ever consumed is actually a small scientific experiment. The carbonated gasses, sugar (fructose), water and other ingredients make the drink exciting and fun to drink, but these ingredients need to be put together in a specific formula at the bottling plant. As noted, there has to be quality control at the plant, or when the bottle is accidently stirred or shaken, the bottle once opened will explode with catastrophic consequences. If a carbonated beverage opens too fast by exploding, the top of the beverage, including the cork, pop top or even the entire top of the bottle can explode just like shrapnel, with jarred and broken shards of glass, and can cause serious injuries.
Hand Injury- Facial Injury
People who are injured from opening exploding bottles are injured in a variety of places at one time. An exploding carbonated bottle is a missile that is launched indoors, and even can ricochet off of the walls to come back and doubly injure a person just opening the carbonated beverage by hand. Some of the most notable injuries from exploding bottles are:
- Loss of an eye
- Hand cuts and lacerations
- Cuts of tendons and muscles in the hand
- Blindness
- Concussion
- Traumatic brain injury
- Cuts and lacerations
- Broken bones in face
- Falling injuries (broken leg, hip, arm)
Can I Sue in this Type of Case?
Yes, we can sue. There is no reason for you to suffer in silence when you have been seriously injured from a carbonated beverage explosion. You need to give our law office a call, and let us show you the next steps. Just call our Los Angeles case lawyers, we can file a lawsuit for you, and we are determined to get you back the money that you need to recover fully in this carbonated beverage explosion case. You do not need to experience or suffer through hard times because a bottle you opened exploded on you and caused serious injuries. Just call our case attorneys in Los Angeles, and we can sue to get you the money you require to be fully compensated in this carbonated beverage explosion case.
Carbonated Beverage Explosion While Uncorking the Bottle
If you have been seriously injured by a carbonated beverage explosion while uncorking the bottle, you need to call our office to talk to lawyers who can help with getting you the money you need from now on to pay your medical bills. You need our attorneys to talk to you about the carbonated beverage explosion case you have now. Our experienced attorney in Los Angeles is ready to meet with you, and will know what to do when negotiating a personal injury case on your behalf with a carbonated beverage explosion.
The Carbonated Beverage Explosion Can Be Primed to Happen During the Bottling Process
If a carbonated bottle is scratched, damaged or improperly used during the bottling process, then it can create a situation with an added stressor on the bottle, which can cause it to later explode. A bottle can be cracked, improperly filled, or filled with the wrong ingredients of CO2 mixtures, which is a fatal flaw of the manufacturer, to create an explosion later down the supply chain for the consumer.
If you have been injured by a carbonated beverage explosion, you need to call our attorneys who specialize in making the best decisions for our case on the merits of the negligence of the bottle manufacturers in this case. You need to be aligned with a lawyer with a specialty in continuing to put you at the best advantage for your lawsuit, to win the money you need in recovery for paying your lost wages and medical bills.
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If There Is a Buildup of Gasses in the Bottle, a Carbonated Beverage Explosion Will Be the
Result
Pressures related to the amount of carbonated gas in a bottle can increase, if the manufacturer gages and thermometer in the bottling process are off, not calibrated correctly and not monitored. This will create the situation of a defect in the product that the consume will be buying down the line of the supply chain. Bottling manufacturing plants have standards that they must meet, to ensure that the gasses put into the liquids going into their bottles are safe for public consumption.
If the bottles are not safe, then the bottling manufacturer are negligent in their duties to provide a safe product to the public, and are responsible for any damage to life and limb that their unsafe product provides to consumers. The manufacturers need to continually test and retest their bottling process for safety. There is too much at stake to leave it all up to chance.
Anyone who has had a carbonated beverage explosion needs to call our law office today. You will be connected with a lawyer with experience in what to do right to get you the money that you deserve today for your serious personal and bodily injuries. Call us now for an attorney with expertise in permanent solutions in regard to your lawsuit, to get you back the money you deserve in recovery compensation in this type of case.
Carbonated Beverage Explosion Due to the Continued Fermentation of the Wine in the Bottle
The amount of pressure in a bottle can be increased due to improper fermentation of the wine. A wine bottle can explode if the wine bottle was not properly treated to handle the pressure of a sparkling wine. This is also the case with:
- Exploding beer bottles
- Exploding soda, Coke, and Pepsi bottles
- Exploding store brand bottles
If you have been injured by an exploding carbonated beverage bottle, you should call our office to talk to a lawyer who is prepared to win your case right now. Do not wait or hesitate, you should go with an attorney who is ready to fight for you tooth and nail on the case of an exploding carbonated beverage bottle. Just give us a call today, and we can begin a lawsuit right away
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