Man suffered bruised knee after being blown out of exploding bathroom

A New York man escaped with just a bruised knee after he was a launched out of a bathroom by an explosion. Jeffery Oppenheim was visiting his friend Andrew Pessin in Providence, Rhode Island, on Sunday when the unusual incident occurred.



He was inside the home for only ten minutes when he went to the first floor bathroom and heard a strange clicking noise. Then there was a gigantic bang and the walls started to cave in. The force of the blast threw him out of the room.

Oppenheim said, "It happened in an instant like getting hit by a cannon." Pessin said, "I was in the kitchen with my kids and immediately smelled the burning smell and we just picked them all up and ran out of the house."



Everyone made it out safely. Oppenheim has a bruised knee but says he's just glad it wasn't worse. An investigation has been launched into the cause of the blast.

With news video.