Soda cans with dangerous pressure

So this is from my most recent purchase for sodas (theyre all out of the case because i marked them for safety concerns).

I haven't been injured yet, but if I were injured from these, what kind of action should I take, if any (im not going to go through that trouble. I just passed a small message to Pepsi's feedback)? If these opened like this to you how would you handle it?

Furthermore, what the hell would make this happen during the manufacturing process?

https://my.mixtape.moe/idzuvo.mp4

 

Stop opening them and take them back for a refund?

Why keeping opening them, seemingly wanting to get injured so you can "take action"?

 

Hahaha, I'm actuallly in agreement with @Bad_Ad84 on this one, that's crazy insane fun but I'd take them back and put them down hard on the counter. Boom! Counter destroyed, Counter-terrorists win! Wait, or would that be normal terrorists?

 

Way I see it, if you opened one without knowing and were injured - you have a point to get compensation or what ever.

If you keep opening them after you know, it's your own fault.

 

I'm still going to drink them and I dont want to even take legal action (because I doubt this happens that often - and I dont feel like going back to the store to explain this), but I have to wonder how these managed to not get stopped along the line since they do check the pressure in cans as well.
Just holding them and giving a gentle squeeze can be a very uneasy thing.

 

Tweet this to PepsiCo. Posting here won't do anything.

However that pressure is quite dangerous, not only from the top of the can popping out with a sharp piece of tin. The sound alone could frighten someone with a heart condition.

I drink a lot... A LOT of Pepsi and never had this happen.

Here's what will likely happen if you contact the company.
They'll take the case away, and take it for 'testing' from there they'll contact you. Likely saying they found nothing wrong, and you won't get a replacement case or anything.

You have video proof anyway, seriously though don't keep opening all them. You haven't been hurt from it but I really would contact the company.

 

Passed it along through their facebook. Likely gonna tweet at em. It failed to upload 2 times on twitter is why I chose that method instead.
I still have a backup 12 pack to drink.

There's still 9 that haven't been opened (one wasn't as bad as the rest, but still alarming). Thanks for the input Hex and Bad_Ad

 

Did you post it publicly?

 

I have now on twitter.

 

I've always found canned Dr. Pepper to have more pressure than either of those two. Cans have blown up on a few occasions, but have yet to be injured. Only showered by sugary cola.

 

The first one (not in the video) barely had any spilling of the beverage itself, just a loud bang.
But I have noticed that as well for Dr Pepper. I've noticed some weird stuff from fast food places near me, where I'll get say, Mr Pibb, and then put some raspberry tea into it (from the same machine) and it will cause a fizzing that's sorta delayed. Only happens with those 2 though which makes it even weirder.

I haven't seen this kind of phenomenon with Mountain dew however. That not only concerns me even more, but makes me wonder if it's just a dark coloured soda trait.

 

It's purely to do with carbon dioxide.

 

Right which makes me wonder how these cans had so much built up.
Not even shaking them could lead to something like this unless the whole batch they came from was messed up right?

I'll see if I get an answer from Pepsi and share here if I do.

 

Is it very hot at the moment?

Maybe they go shaken up, then in the heat it expanded even more?

 

Lately it's been in 70-75F temperature where they're stored (and there were a couple hours between the purchase and opening and it was about 60-65F in the market where they were), they have not been shaken either (it's the one thing I'm actually good at not doing).
There's one in the fridge that I will be opening to drink, but if the others are like this, then I expect the temperature to have little to no effect.

 

They could have been shaken before you got them.

But see how the one in the fridge behaves when its opened

 

Alright good news
2 more have been opened, no explosions

Bad news
They're getting harder to open and it's the most nerve racking time being unsure if it's going to explode or just open normally. The tabs are bending up and not opening the part that actually opens (is there a name for that bit?).

So less explosions, more difficulty opening them.

 

Do you live at high altitude? If the factory was at sea level and you are like in the rockies, it will pop hard!