Editing Paintball compressed-gas cylinder failures (section)

=== Wider Luxfer cylinder recovery programme, United States, 2006 ===

In May 2006, the United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued an advisory concerning '''6,325 high-pressure cylinders''' manufactured or distributed by Luxfer without the required autofrettage and hydrostatic tests.[11]

The notice covered multiple cylinder types used for breathing apparatus, paintball and other applications.

A corrected advisory dated 10 May 2006 reported that 2,581 cylinders had been recovered and identified the remaining affected cylinders by model and serial number.[11]

The total of 6,325 must not be interpreted as the number of paintball cylinders affected or the number that failed hydrostatic testing.

Luxfer stated that cylinders recovered and tested during its investigation had passed the required tests.[12]

The recovery programme concerned incomplete original manufacturing tests, not proof that thousands of cylinders were structurally defective.