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To: Chickensoup
> When big pours of concrete happened no one stops for a body falling in. <

I would suppose the goes for someone (careless or drunk) who falls into a vat of molten steel.

I worked in a steel mill for a while. It never happened at my mill. But it has happened.


14 posted on 11/24/2025 11:55:05 AM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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20 posted on 11/24/2025 12:10:28 PM PST by BlueLancer (Orchides Forum Trahite - Cordes Et Mentes Veniant)
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To: Leaning Right

Local steel mill in Ambridge PA had a guy either fall or jump into a Bessemer Converter, a huge barrel shaped metal container that has oxygen blown into it while it’s filled with molten steel to burn off the impurities. This blows a column of flame about 15 ft wide and about 50 ft long out the end of it. Produces around 20 Ton of steel. Found out a curious fact, company did not scrap the batch the guy fell into. They looked up his medical record for his last weight,
and poured a small ingot weighing the same to give to the widow for burial.


29 posted on 11/24/2025 12:48:34 PM PST by E.Allen
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To: Leaning Right

Hawaii Five O used the idea of an incinerator once.

https://youtu.be/SaRIQfpBs1s?si=M75f7HfSkn3imv5S


30 posted on 11/24/2025 12:49:49 PM PST by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure..)
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