According to the sheriff’s office, deputies spoke with an employee who witnessed the incident. He said he saw Vallini filling large tires with air before he went inside the shop.

Florida auto shop employee killed when air pressure causes tire to explode, striking him in the head, sheriff says.

A Delta Air Lines worker who died in a tire explosion this week was less than a year away from retirement.

Is it safe to fill your current tires with nitrogen instead of air? And why would you want to do that, anyway? A former mechanic explains it all.

An American Airlines pilot successfully aborted takeoff after a tire explosion, ensuring the safety of 180 individuals on board; no injuries were reported, and the FAA is investigating.

Man will learn sentence for killing woman who was filling tires with air in Macomb County A man who stabbed a woman to death in a random attack as she was filling her tires with air in Macomb ...

While airplane tires might look like the ones on our cars, they're not filled with regular air, but nitrogen. There are several reasons for this.