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Fire extinguisher flies a quarter-mile into Conn. home

August 28, 2013 / 9:37 AM EDT / CBS/AP

PLAINVILLE, Conn. Connecticut officials said part of a fire extinguisher flew nearly a quarter-mile through the air into a house after a workplace accident. No one was injured.

Plainville firefighters say a machine operator cutting beams at a metal recycling company Tuesday afternoon didn't see the extinguisher, and the machine cut into the extinguisher, causing it to explode.

Tom Orvis said he was in his kitchen when he heard a loud noise.

"It felt like an explosion, and about three seconds later my whole house shook," he told CBS Affiliate WFSB's Karen Lee. "It hit the top of my house and bounced off."

He went outside and saw pieces of roof on his lawn. There also was a small hole in his roof.

An explosion at the J.W. Green scrap metal recycling facility in Plainville, Conn., caused part of a fire extinguisher to fly through the air, hitting a house a quarter-mile away. Google Maps

Authorities found the partial extinguisher more than 200 yards from the house.

Orvis said a worker from the JW Green Co. apologized to him, and the company offered to fix the damage.