This had to hurt, foundry worker killed by 2600 degree molten steel
Friday, June 9th, 2006 - 10:45am
I hope the fall into the pit killed this poor guy before the molten steel got to him.
What a courageous co-worker who leaped into the pit to try and save him with the molten steel filled ladle fast approaching. He himself only escaped just in the nick of time.
It says it'll take several days for the steel to cool, so they can recover his remains.... I wonder what is left after being encased in 2600 degree molten steel.
err this story is related by one sphere of seperation to gaming because of the temperature.... 2600... Atari.
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I don't imagine he felt much of anything.
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Something similar happened at one of the mills run by the company I work for. Some people fell into what is essentially a giant vat of boiling brine. Not a good way to go, that's for sure.
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Yeah, I'm with ya on that. It's pretty sad that they couldn't stop the pour in time.
Well... one thing's for sure... It won't be an open casket.
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I suspect the best they'd be able to do would be to make a plaster casting of the void in the steel.
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I will never look at Metallic Mario in Super Smash Brothers Melee the same...
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How seriously are we taking this thread?
Let me put it another way. Would it be completely inappropriate to put up a picture of Han encase in carbonite?
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Dude, I was thinking the exact same thing.
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I'm glad I don't work in a factory like that, I'm extremely clumsy. I feel pretty bad the guy had to die, but really, it is much cooler than saying you've died of a cancerous tumor in your ass.
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Agreed. I think I'd rather go out quickly and meaningfully than of something stupid like diabetes from eating too much.
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See, this is related to gaming yet again.... LEGO Star Wars 2 is coming in September with LEGO carbonite Han....
Honestly everything is related to gaming... do we even need this forum?
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This whole story is actually a cover story to obscure the fact that a woman and her young son infiltrated the steel plant and destroyed valuable Cyberdine Systems property.
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I'm suprised no one's made any heavy metal jokes yet. Jeez!
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Something like,
What did the foundry foreman say as he watched the ladle of molten steel begin to pour?
"Damn, he's F.A.K.K.ed."
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So what kills you if you have molten steel poured on you?
a) shock
b) suffocation from not being able to breath
c) suffocation from your lungs turning to ash
d) bleeding out from a melted artery (would you bleed at all, or would it insta-cauterize?)
e) cooking your brain
I'd lean towards e), but IANAMD. I hope it's quick, whatever it is... (though I would guess that you wouldn't feel much pain, as all your nerves firing at once would probably overload pain circuitry pretty quickly).
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-on L4DIf I recall last time I heard of this sort of thing happening they actually just bury the whole batch of steel instead of looking for remains.
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Yeah, there aren't really going to be any remains; I'm sure it basically just formed dross. Whatever is encased in the metal is really going to be impossible to extract.
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His pall bearers would have to be mechanized cranes. Lucky bastard.
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I hope this guy doesn't have kids that surf this site.
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No kidding.
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f) All of your flesh instantly searing off and turning to ash, leaving nothing but a charred skeleton. 2600 degrees is really, really hot. It'd be painless because you'd be dead before your brain could process the stimuli.
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Am I going to Hell because I thought it was funny that the guy who posted this link is "Irongut"?
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I'm thinking that our bones can't take that kind of heat.
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True, but I think they might be hard enough that they wouldn't out and out vaporize.
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True.
I have to feel bad for the guy, but after hearing horor stories from one of my ex-bosses, I know there are worse ways to go. He worked in a cooking oil processing plant. Lots of high temperature oil. I'll keep it at that.
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Very close. I recall experiments designed to prove or disprove spontaneous human combustion showed that it takes temperatures in excess of 3,000° F to reduce bone to ash.
In any case, sucks to be (to have been?) that guy.
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He would feel sharp pain for a millisecond, then his nerves would have been burned to a crisp and he would be dead. I imagine jumping off a building and having your neck broke would cause more suffering than this guy had.
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Cremation ovens operate at about 1900 degrees.. so my guess would be the guy pretty much dissolved into the steel. I'd be surprised if there's anything left for them to recover.
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True there's bone fragments left after cremation which is then pounded to dust, but that's a dry heat. We're talking about a molten liquid here..
In any case.. it's a pretty crappy way to go. I cannot believe they had no way to stop the thing from pouring. I smell some safety inspections and lawsuits coming out of this. You would think there'd be a big red button that says "Press in Emergency" that shuts the whole system down.
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