OHIO FOUNDRY WORKER KILLED IN STEEL PIT

AP News ^ | 9 June 2006

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Foundry worker killed after falling into steel pit. Interesting read. Go to Drudge Report, click on AP Breaking News and find story with the headline above.

[kylaka]

Could be. But to believe that, I'd first have to believe they are honest brokers, on average. I've never seen any evidence of that, ever, during my lifetime.

[Beagle8U]

"Let us hope that the fall killed him. Imagine looking up and seeing all that molten steel pouring down."

A guy I used to work with, was working in maintenance in a GM stamping plant. Some guy was working inside a big die in a 5000 ton press, he didn't have it locked out properly and the press tripped and cycled with him in it.

He saw it coming but nothing he could do to get out in time. My buddy said the sheer terror in that guys eyes is something he will never forget as long as he lives.

It busted that guy into fist sized chunks and right down through to the scrap conveyor.

[Kiss Me Hardy]

Here's another true story to put you off your cornflakes:

I worked a summer job at a metalworks and one Friday night at the start of a long weekend a burglar fell through the roof and was impaled through the thigh and buttock (I won't be more graphic; use your imagination) on a 6-foot stainless steel spike that was part of some piece of equipment awaiting shipping.

The medical examiner's report later said he had probably been alive for almost three days.

Now that is a very uncomfortable way to go.

[Sender]

Gordon Hickman, 41, was operating a massive ladle near the rim of the 35-foot pit just before noon when he fell into it, moments before the 2,600-degree steel was poured in...

2,600 degree molten steel...he's dead, Jim.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

All things considered, better that than Alzheimer's.

[Age of Reason]

OHIO FOUNDRY WORKER KILLED IN STEEL PIT

The chance to drown in molten steel sounds almost as bad as picking lettuce.

If this kind of thing keeps up, steel work might become another job American's won't want to do.

[skr]

The breeder is in legal trouble or certainly would be in our state; four weeks is far too young and not many vaccinations could have been administered, if any even were. Using a puppy's corpse as an weapon is just plain sick, and if the one puppy was sick, the woman wasn't very bright about the likelihood of the other puppies being sick as well.

[Lockbar]

I knew a guy that witnessed such an accident in a West German steel mill 50 years ago. The poor guy just disappeared. After the ingot cooled, it was trucked to a cemetery and buried.

[kokonut]

did they still use the molten steel afterwards?

[Jeff Chandler]

>>The media... <<

I'd first have to believe they are honest brokers, on average.

Thanks. I needed a good laugh.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Poor man, may his soul rest in peace.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Thanks. Started to post the story and got the copyright thing which said something to the effect that I was going to be thrown into a molten vat of steel if I posted or...

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

If the government would just let me, I'd shake Al-Qaeda.

[metmom]

In Buffalo, NY one time, Somebody committing suicide jumped off the top of City Hall and was impaled right through the middle of his torso on the flag pole right out front. He slid about 6 feet down the pole. They closed off all downtown for the rest of the day while some poor somebodies had to retrieve the body. They showed the silhouette on the news. Pretty unforgettable also.

[metmom]

Use the steel? He didn't say but he also commented that the guy just vaporized.

[jimboster]

Sounds like how a comic book hero gets his powers. Mild-mannered foundry worker who, due to an industrial accident, finds himself coated in an impenetrable alloy which makes him impervious to fists, knives, bullets, explosions, radiation ......

[xJones]

He saw it coming but nothing he could do to get out in time. My buddy said the sheer terror in that guys eyes is something he will never forget as long as he lives.

It busted that guy into fist sized chunks and right down through to the scrap conveyor.

Dear Lord, that's horrible! That's the kind of death you'd only wish on someone like Osama.

[meyer]

I find it interesting that there are scores and scores of industrial accidents being reported in the press, coal mines etc., when usually there are none reported. They just aren't newsworthy in most cases. Could it be that the media would like us to believe these accidents are happening because Bush is cutting breaks to his corporate buddies? The press did it with homelessness during the early Reagan administration until they were ridiculed into submission by the facts. I think the bastards have just moved on to the next streotype in their DNC playbook.

The media won't be happy until all industry is gone from America. Then, they will whine about joblessness.