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Bro Almost Goes Blind From Exploding Protein Shake Beaker — ‘All My Skin Started Peeling Off My Face’

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Bro, do you even sterilize? Dion Chilton, 19, nearly went blind after pouring boiling water into his protein shake beaker to sterilize it which caused a pressure explosion sending scalding hot liquid into his eyes and all over his face, melting the skin on contact. Now THIS is what devotion to training looks like, a man nearly losing his face in his pursuit of gains.

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Dion’s older brother Brendan, 25, found him on the kitchen floor and immediately called an ambulance, recognizing the urgency of the situation. I’ll tell you his story in just a moment, but afterwards I need to get this story of my off my chest about the time I truly thought I was going blind, and if you’ve dealt with anything similar be sure to hit me up below down in the comments. Story after the jump.

The Mirror UK reports:

A teenage student suffered third degree burns after a plastic protein shake beaker filled with boiling water exploded over his face.
Dion Chilton, 19, poured boiling water into the drink container to sterilise it, but when he put the lid on the high heat the pressure caused it to explode.
Dion was rushed to the William Harvey Hospital in his home town of Ashford, Kent, after the accident at around 7pm on May 17.
Dion, who is studying at at Kent University, said: “I poured water from the kettle in a small flask, put the lid on and where the water was boiling and there was too much steam it just exploded in my face.
“All my skin started peeling off my face.
“I could only see black and I was panicking that I had lost my eyesight.”
He added: “I suppose my warning is just to not let me sterilise your flasks.”
Luckily, Dion has been told he will not suffer any permanent damage or scarring and is expected to regain full sight.

All jokes aside: holy hell that had to be miserable. Fortunately I haven’t ever had boiling water shot into my face, but I did experience a similar incident late last year. We were cooking flank steak with a chimichurri sauce at home, and were using the ‘Magic Bullet’ blender to make the chimichurri. If you’re not familiar with chimichurri sauce it’s an Argentinian green sauce that’s actually named for a man from the UK (Jimmy McMurry) who supposedly invented the sauce, but the locals in Argentina were not able to pronounce his name so they instead called it chimichurri sauce. Ingredients in this sauce include some of the following items: Red Wine Vinegar, Red Pepper Flakes, Salt, and Fresh Ground Pepper (among other items). If you’re not sensing a trend here let me spell it out for you: those ingredients listed, if thrown into someone’s eyeballs after all being mixed together would make for one of the most painful concoctions known to man.

So as my wife was blending the ingredients in the Magic Bullet I was sitting about 7-feet away on the couch, probably banging out a blog post at the time. After finishing blending she dropped the Magic Bullet and it managed to hit the floor at just an angle where it caused a gun-like reaction. Sending the liquid shooting across the room at what seemed like the speed of light. I look over just in time to have the chimichurri sauce hit my eyes with as much force as if someone were to just throw it into them as hard as they could. Within seconds I was blinded. It probably took less than 10 seconds for my entire face to swell up to the point I couldn’t see out of my eyes. We have a dog so my wife was concerned with cleaning up the sauce, not realizing immediately what was happening. As I started to disrobe and crawl to the shower, telling her she might need to call an ambulance, she finally grasped what was happening. Above all I think what absolutely destroyed my eyes was the red wine vinegar, though the salt/pepper and pepper flakes certainly didn’t help. Point being: if you ever want to get back at your worst enemy, DO NOT use chimichurri sauce in the eyes, because that’s messed up and I don’t wish it upon my worst enemy.

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You have to be careful out there, bros. This sounds like a freak accident that could happen to anybody, but he could have taken steps to ensure that it never happened. Like washing out that protein shake beaker in the dishwasher, or rinsing with boiling water instead of putting the cap on top which created the pressure explosion that nearly cost him his sight. Scary stuff.

For more on this story you can click on over to the Mirror UK.