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@CrazyJames
Don't get me wrong back when I was a tournament paintball player I used to carry around 4500psi of air in a carbon fibre tank on the back of my marker/gun. But its much easier to endanger yourself with compressed air, like for instance in a typical bike enthusiasts workshop/place of storage etc there is going to be oil knocking around right?
Well if you get some oil on your pump and it makes its way into the compressed air tank, there is an extremely high chance of it going boom. There was an incident a while ago with a player using a tank that didn't meet safety standard in this country (only had one burst disc in the regulator, and tank wall thickness didn't meet requirements), form what I remember the regulator exploded due to him somehow getting oil near the fill nipple which made its way into the tank, anyway he had major burns, wounding, to his torso, had he felt the full force of the 4500 psi its likely he wouldn't be alive today.