[bill1952]

Strangely, I was working at Allen Wood Steel, in swedeland, Pa, back in the 70s, when a similar event occurred, killed many workers at one of the blast furnances who were attempting to work on a leak in the cinder notch.

I had declined the offer to work on that particular rigging crew that night, simply because I knew of the problem.

Metal droplets dance on the skin like water tossed in a hot frying pan. - Where they go there is no flesh left.

I put the blame for the demise of our heavy industries squarely on the unions. - Even then I knew that steel couldn’t survive in this country under the union demands.

And it didn’t.

[mylife]

Metal droplets dance on the skin like water tossed in a hot frying pan. - Where they go there is no flesh left.

Yup. and it destroys the nerve ending immediatly. generally at temps like that there is no pain. I have a scar on my knee from when I was a welder. It went to the bone. I never knew it happened till I was showering that night and found the wound

[NewCenturions]

"I put the blame for the demise of our heavy industries squarely on the unions"

Amen! And how many other industries have the unions ruined?

[Flightdeck]

“Strangely, I was working at Allen Wood Steel, in swedeland, Pa,...”

I know a guy who worked in a steel mill not far from the Ohio/Pa border who got drenched with steel on his arm. Lost all the muscle but survived. Now there is only one steel mill left in the “Steel Valley”.