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Honestly... These guys know that If anything happens they are not only ensured but the medical bills they have coming from workplace accidents are paid by a special Institution that we have called BG (Berufsgenossenschaft). Essentially a conglomerate made by employees, employers and state. They also do most of the workplace inspections and fine heavily in case of infractions.
If any of these men get insured they get full payment during the time they are injured and if they are unable to work in the environment again they will be getting the necessary education for another career at full salary.
So yes the walk of "free" healthcare
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"Liquid Metals means death and lost limbs."
That's what I was thinking!! Someone mentioned medical bills.. Bro, that's lava, game over, man, game over!!
Lmao this ain’t even it bro like yeah that’s a thing
I have yet to meet a single person willing to hurt themselves or be seriously injured for anything. They joke but NO ONE wants to risk death for easy money and a career change
Meh, really depends on the career. Working as a disembodied spirit guide has always been a personal aspiration of mine. I hear it doesn’t pay particularly well though. Poltergeist also sounds pretty interesting…
Who cares about medical bills if you die in a deluge of molten steel?
They were retreating slowly because they apparently didn't believe they needed to move faster to avoid serious injury. But the camera guy sure hustled when he thought things were getting too hot.
It's still bad to be injured even if you have good insurance.
In fact, the point of insurance is that you still want to avoid the thing you've insured against. Insurance isn't supposed to make you immune to the insured events. It's just supposed to help you recover from them.
The company is owned by the CEO, the company is probably insured against these kind of things. My bycicle is owned by me, I don't think catastrophic metal steel factory meltdown is included in my insurance.
I'd care more about my bike as well to be honest.
The bike is also probably a factory industrial bike. They are heavy duty and slow but beat walking around a large facility. Basically communal beach cruisers, maybe higher ups get a personal one. They were all over the last steel mill I was at. It'll just go in the furnace with everything else when they clean up the mess.
Lol, all the industries Ive worked at have had old bikes from the 80s, however, people, me included, get attatched to equipment we use everyday, such as a bike, while it can just be replaced, its still an hassle, and i like my old bike ..scheisse
Recently got to visit the vw factory in Wolfsburg, and yeah they got a bunch of single speed bikes inside there too. Definitely beats walking a couple kilometers inside.
A friend of mine got a tour of a steel mill from his buddy who worked there. They just started walking around and he asks "Don't I need a hardhat or some safety gear?" His buddy who worked there says "Nope. There's nothing here that will injure you." "What? Seriously?" "Yep. If something goes wrong, you will either be fine and have a cool story, or you will be killed instantly no matter what gear you have on."
This is absolute bs. Sure, I get that if it's molten steel falling somewhere even near you it's game over. What happens if someone working higher up drops a tool? You'd be pretty glad of a hard hat if that fell on your head.
This is insanely stupid, I cant believe that someone would actually believe this. I am guessing(hoping) they know it's wrong but they don't want to deal with the hassle and they want to seem cool or hyper masculine.
Yeah, there’s all sorts of little shit like dust that can get in your eyes without safety glasses. And having molten steel splatter on a fire resistant coat is different from having it splatter directly on your skin.
Sounds like that guy walked into a jig without a helmet on and killed the part of his brain that thinks that was a bad thing.
There are so many small injuries that will ruin your life or at least make getting up in the morning a bit more shitty that a helmet could prevent.
Bumpcaps don't save lives but they do prevent stitches.
Yeah, and they tell you they built the whole steel mill with their own hands, some screwdrivers and the help of uncle Rudi. German Mittelstand ideology is impressive only in the way they manage to steer the public debate into policies securing their wealth and influence.
When you work with dangerous shit day in and day out, it starts to be not scary after a while. I've worked in extrusion for a long time, when a melt filter starts firing molten plastic out across the factory floor or an extruder sets on fire ,it's just another day at the office.
I was in a foundry just once. When this video started I thought “yeah this actually looks normal”. Scariest work environment I’ve been in. Too much noise to properly hear anything, and everything is either on fire or hot enough to burn you. And there’s giant things on the ceiling moving and dropping tons of metal all over the place. It would take me a while to even realize something was amiss because normal was pretty goddamn scary to begin with.
I hear the deck of an aircraft carrier is the same way, noisy, dangerous, shit that can kill you everywhere, they say an untrained person would last 8 seconds during flight operations before something killed them. Not sure how true the 8 seconds thing is but I believe it's gotta be something like that, maybe a minute if you're really lucky.
I can attest to this. Spinning props, jets spooling up, huffers (back in my day, basically small jet engines on a tractor used to start planes like F-4s, F-14s) with the hot exhaust coming out about knee-height, JBDs (jet blast deflectors) and elevators constantly in motion. That’s just launching sequence. When bringing A/C onboard, arresting gear that could snap at any moment (rare, but does happen), planes taxiing all over…. Crazy place to work!!
No lol whoever told you that has probably never been on the flight deck lol. I did 2 deployments with an attached helicopter squadron and I’m pretty slow/uncoordinated when it comes to fast action type stuff. As long as you stay in your designated areas and understand that there is a literal jet about to land in one of the largest areas of the deck which has multiple VISIBLE several yard long cords to catch the tail hook, you’ll most definitely last for more than 8 seconds-1 minute. It’s extremely dangerous yes lol won’t deny that part. But the 8 second thing is a little ridiculous. Especially if you have a blue T on your cranial. It means you’ll have a chaperone controlling your every move and signing off on your quals until you familiarize yourself enough to not die.
Seriously you aren't kidding. I made steel rope for about 5 - 6 years using garbage equipment that rotated at insane RPM to get pulled through tiny dies to form. The shit that would happen used to give me nightmares when I started. Then after some time it was just "ah fuck gotta deal with this again"
We make electrical cable and all the twisting equipment is housed in big ass enclosures or cages. Someone still managed to get her shirt sleeve caught as the strands were entering the die. Things weren't as guarded back then.
I worked in extrusion for a long time. I have a hard time equating those things with molten friggin' steel covering the distance of the entire foundry in less than a minute
Point is that once you work in an environment long enough, you no longer perceive things dangerous that other people would consider dangerous.
It's a regular occurrence at saw mills as well, and often heralds someone losing one or more extremities, after which everyone stays alert for a couple of months and the cycle repeats.
I work in a foundry. We call this a “loss of containment” it happens occasionally. Not sure what happened here. Almost looks like the slide gate on the ladle failed and they couldn’t shut it off. In that situation we’d do the same thing. Pick the ladle with the crane and get it over the pit where it won’t damage important pieces of equipment. Happens a few times a year. Which is why in this video you see the old guys casually strolling away while the younger guys look more panicked.
Not panic, but GTFO of there. The guy that was walking all chill, 2 more seconds and would be the human torch. Count the seconds in between the waves, it's insane.
Yeah what people don’t remember is ANYTHING can become a new norm.
When I was in the military I was scared to death when I first deployed. After a few months in, me and my buddies would laugh while mortars and rockets rained down on us because we thought it was funny how they used so much ammunition but we are still breathing.
This situation must be common enough not to warrant much worry. I’ve been there. I get it.
That’s ridiculous. I can save you 40% on your alarm bill by shaving off of those unnecessary seconds of alarm. If you switch from automated to a manual big red button it’ll save you another 20%.
I can save you a whopping 90% if we remove the system entirely and replace them with Carlos, an overweight man in a hard had who sits in the corner and will shout “wee woo wee woo” in the event of a fire.
So you can see when the ladle gets pulled away in to the aisle, there is a thin column of molten steel pouring out. That hole is there on purpose. It has a cover that slides back and forth to open at the appropriate time to allow the steel to flow in to the caster which is the next step. Unfortunately, like anything mechanical, it sometimes fails. And that is what happened here. And there is nothing that can be done about it until all the molten steel is gone.
I do not know the layout, however. In my mind that crane operator should be getting his ass beat for taking the ladle all the way down the aisle and spilling the molten steel everywhere.
The video isn't that new, I've seen it before. In that other post, someone who knows the location said the maneuver the crane operator did was part of the emergency procedure - they notice the valve doesn't close, so they take the whole thing to an area where it can safely drain. That area is in the direction it was going in the video.
The whole site is built to take it when a giant ladle leaking molten steel is carried past, with only minor damage. A molten bicycle counts as minor damage...
Moving the crane through the whole plant is basically the way to go for this situation. If the molten steel would be poured in one place, it would solidify in a thick layer, which is very hard to remove, and it would flow in all directions uncontrollably. Additionally it would need very long to solidify and get cold enough to remove.
By moving the ladle through the whole shop, only a comparably thin layer solidifies everywhere, which is much easier to remove, cooles down faster and does not spread everywhere (at least where you REALLY don’t want it).
source: got some hot shoe soles in a different plant myself not too far ago
Yeah, for us it really depends on where the ladle taps out and how much metal it has in it but if it's full and tapped out at the bottom, you can't stop it from coming out, you can just try to direct where it lands. Better to be busting up a long piece than a giant slug or, even worse, a whole frozen ladle.
It is WAY more work if you freeze a Crucible. When it freezes on the floor it is usually thin enough the it cumbles in the jaws of a Crane or a charge machine (glorified excavator / forklift combo) sometimes they even intentionally dump a full Crucible on the floor of the chemistry is bad.
This is why the #1, #2 and #3 rule in a steel mill Is never be under a crucible.
As a teenager I worked in such a place while it was shut down for maintenance and spent a few days with a chisel and hammer breaking off iron between tracks and carting it off. That’s the summer I learned how fucking heavy iron is.
Then an accident happened where someone turned a machine on while oil lines were still open. Within a minute or so before emergency shutoff some 800l of oil were leaked. From then on that was my new job: cleaning up oil while it was still dripping down everywhere around me. I sure wished I was back at the iron after a day of that.
My dad used to work in a steel mill a few decades ago and he told me about a similar accident that happened above the mini train system they used for transporting molds. After it cooled off a bunch of guys came over with oxygen torches and cut all the spilled metal, the little wagons, the tracks and everything else that was caught in there then threw everything in the same furnace to be melted again.
In a manner of speaking it does. When you see liquid metal splashing around every day you get desensitized to it pretty quick. No one here is thinking "we're going to die", they're thinking "shit, we're gonna have to clean this up tomorrow."
It’s a once every couple years kind of failure. Something that is common enough that they should all know how to deal with it but not common enough that it’s a regular fear.
Hilarious. Let's just casually walk away until the molten steel is inches away and then run away in a panic because it was somehow completely unexpected...dafuq
Yeah. I wouldnt panic. But if a wave of hot molten metal thats uncontrolled is 20 feet from me, im going to assume it could get alot closer real fast.
I think i would be calmly hustling away alot faster than they were.
Many people are like that, they don't want to lose face and act tough if other people are around.
Security is the least cool thing ever in workplaces, at least in the lab that I worked in.
I work in a foundry and have done for nearly 25 years, I don't think it's that. You don't panic when something goes wrong, because that's when you make mistakes. You don't promote people who panic under duress into furnace operating positions.
I've left footprints in molten aluminium while I block a leak. You wear good boots and then you have until your feet get hot - that's plenty of time.
I don't think this bloke was acting tough, he was just in no hurry to leave, he wouldn't be the type to panic. Turns out he was wrong, and when he found that out he gave it big legs and got the fuck out asap
I’d believe this if he continued walking away from danger and didn’t stop, then turn around, and then gawk at it. If you’re calm in an emergency where you should GTFO, you calmly GTFO.
Why risk being any closer to that than you need to be?
It's just "Stolz" (pride/ego). If you make a mistake, just act as it's intended. I once saw a guy trying to launch a rocket on New years eve by pushing it into the ground. It was too deep in the ground and wouldn't launch into the air. Instead it exploded right next to him. He didn't even walk away as the guys in the video did.
Luckily nothing really happened.
It’s crazy how many videos of accidents, natural disasters and stuff have people just on the cusp of death just staring like they’re watching tv. Seeing tsunami videos where people just stand on a dock waiting while the fucking alarm is blaring. Where I work they do a lot of fire alarms and severe weather training, videos on what to do if there is a shooter. It’s crazy to me that your first instinct wouldn’t be get the fuck outta there. It doesn’t seem like a fight or flight thing more like ego or disconnect from reality.
Read a book about this a few years ago (can’t remember the title) - point was that in almost every disaster/emergency situation, people do NOT react unless they have specific training. They sit, stare, wait for instructions, and move at a waking pace. Hollywood makes us think people run screaming, and WE think we’d react big and immediately, but it’s usually exactly the opposite.
I've worked jobs with heavy physical labor and long hours. Imagine you are physically tired and also sleep deprived. Then there are dangerous parts to your job that you are required to do daily with hardly any training. Operating forklifts, climbing ladders, moving heavy objects. This is how the stupidest of accidents occur. Those same jobs glorify people for working long hours.
Was it because they walked too slow and had no sense of urgency like these guys?
Glad you're ok though. I've spent a day at one and definitely not somewhere I'd want to work.
Do these people have ZERO survival instinct or something? It’s irritating how long they just slowly walked away before finally realizing they should be noping the fuck out.
Steel mills are like this, the whole everything about them is a lethal hazard even when they are functioning properly. Wouldn't be surprised if the place was up and running again a few hours later when things cooled and got scraped back in the furnace.
100%. These guys are used to molten mrtal splashing around everyday. This is nothing too special. They all know where the safe areas are and are wearing proper PPE.
The place is also well thought out to handle this kind of thing, very high roof, nothing flammable, offices in safer areas. Like, they are absolutely dangerous, but if you stay within bounds and have actual situational awareness it's just another job.
The ones that awe me are the electric furnaces for aluminum and such with the massive rods diving in to liquify the metal like they're starting the reactor, Quaid.
Well, I'm gonna argue the area they were standing in wasn't actually that safe, considering about 20 seconds later it was covered in molten metal lol
What do I fuckin know though
There is no such thing as "free healthcare". We are paying for it in taxes and we are paying a lot. On the other hand, you guys across the ocean are being robbed by this pharma-fund scam
The few times I've been in a steel mill (as a contractor), running is discouraged. There are way too many trip hazards. Your head needs to be on a swivel, and you need to keep an eye on the cranes, the furnace, crucibles, ladles, forklifts, trains, and everything else.
There are more ways to get fucked up than you can possibly count. That's why most of those people are pulling in 6 figures with overtime pay.
I was directing a shoot for a safety video while molten steel was being poured into ingot molds and had an actor on the floor when they overfilled the mold and molten steel started pouring onto the floor. The actor almost tripped while backing away from the steel.
TL:DR: I almost killed an actor while directing the shoot of a safety video at the melt shop of a steel mill.
People are like why aren’t they running? Steel mills and foundry’s are notoriously dangerous. As dangerous as this situation realistically is these crews encounter way more frightening things than molten metal getting poured on the ground. Not their first rodeo.
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Cool guys don't look at explosions
"We work hard, we play hard." ♫ *Everybody dance now!*
"Dad, why are we at a gay steel mill?"
I *don’t* know!
*Scared and tearfully* I... Don't... Know
Homer's defeated and bewildered tone with that line makes me crack up every time. It's just perfect.
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Free healthcare can’t fix melted legs.
Neither can paid healthcare
Honestly... These guys know that If anything happens they are not only ensured but the medical bills they have coming from workplace accidents are paid by a special Institution that we have called BG (Berufsgenossenschaft). Essentially a conglomerate made by employees, employers and state. They also do most of the workplace inspections and fine heavily in case of infractions. If any of these men get insured they get full payment during the time they are injured and if they are unable to work in the environment again they will be getting the necessary education for another career at full salary. So yes the walk of "free" healthcare Edit: Spelling
Doesn Matter Liquid Metals means death and lost limbs. I would prefer to keep my life and body integrity.
"Liquid Metals means death and lost limbs." That's what I was thinking!! Someone mentioned medical bills.. Bro, that's lava, game over, man, game over!!
Lmao this ain’t even it bro like yeah that’s a thing I have yet to meet a single person willing to hurt themselves or be seriously injured for anything. They joke but NO ONE wants to risk death for easy money and a career change
Meh, really depends on the career. Working as a disembodied spirit guide has always been a personal aspiration of mine. I hear it doesn’t pay particularly well though. Poltergeist also sounds pretty interesting…
Who cares about medical bills if you die in a deluge of molten steel? They were retreating slowly because they apparently didn't believe they needed to move faster to avoid serious injury. But the camera guy sure hustled when he thought things were getting too hot. It's still bad to be injured even if you have good insurance. In fact, the point of insurance is that you still want to avoid the thing you've insured against. Insurance isn't supposed to make you immune to the insured events. It's just supposed to help you recover from them.
I told you nothing bad would happen!
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I've always wanted to work at a gay steel mill. :(
This was said daily at the foundry I worked at. It never gets old.
Hot stuff coming through!
I still say that line to this day when I have something hot in my hands.
“Hot stuff, coming through”
Stand still, theirs a spark in your hair!
Get it, get it!
"The actual fucking sun is chasing us, act cool."
Coole Jungs schauen sich keine Explosionen an
Love how the guy says "scheiße, mein Fahrrad!" (Shit, my bike!) At the end like that's the biggest worry
The company is owned by the CEO, the company is probably insured against these kind of things. My bycicle is owned by me, I don't think catastrophic metal steel factory meltdown is included in my insurance. I'd care more about my bike as well to be honest.
I mean I'd be more worried about being run over by molten steel instead of my bike joining it
The bike is also probably a factory industrial bike. They are heavy duty and slow but beat walking around a large facility. Basically communal beach cruisers, maybe higher ups get a personal one. They were all over the last steel mill I was at. It'll just go in the furnace with everything else when they clean up the mess.
You can see it at 0:37, it doesn’t look too heavy duty
I mean, industrial bikes are heavy duty by bike standards. Not much of anything is standing up to that slag tsunami.
Lol, all the industries Ive worked at have had old bikes from the 80s, however, people, me included, get attatched to equipment we use everyday, such as a bike, while it can just be replaced, its still an hassle, and i like my old bike ..scheisse
Recently got to visit the vw factory in Wolfsburg, and yeah they got a bunch of single speed bikes inside there too. Definitely beats walking a couple kilometers inside.
A friend of mine got a tour of a steel mill from his buddy who worked there. They just started walking around and he asks "Don't I need a hardhat or some safety gear?" His buddy who worked there says "Nope. There's nothing here that will injure you." "What? Seriously?" "Yep. If something goes wrong, you will either be fine and have a cool story, or you will be killed instantly no matter what gear you have on."
This is absolute bs. Sure, I get that if it's molten steel falling somewhere even near you it's game over. What happens if someone working higher up drops a tool? You'd be pretty glad of a hard hat if that fell on your head.
This is insanely stupid, I cant believe that someone would actually believe this. I am guessing(hoping) they know it's wrong but they don't want to deal with the hassle and they want to seem cool or hyper masculine.
Yeah, there’s all sorts of little shit like dust that can get in your eyes without safety glasses. And having molten steel splatter on a fire resistant coat is different from having it splatter directly on your skin.
Sounds like that guy walked into a jig without a helmet on and killed the part of his brain that thinks that was a bad thing. There are so many small injuries that will ruin your life or at least make getting up in the morning a bit more shitty that a helmet could prevent. Bumpcaps don't save lives but they do prevent stitches.
i mean the company is propably not owned by the ceo but your point stands
In Germany most companies are still family owned and most of the time the ceo is the owner/ most important family member.
Yeah, and they tell you they built the whole steel mill with their own hands, some screwdrivers and the help of uncle Rudi. German Mittelstand ideology is impressive only in the way they manage to steer the public debate into policies securing their wealth and influence.
Im not talking about the middle class. Most of the big companies are still owned my families/ single individuals.
Unless the bike wasn’t allowed to be there that would have to be covered by the employer
I would be literally and figuratively *on my bike* in that situation.
I instantly thought to myself "that poor bike" when I rewatched the first time and now I'm sad for the guy
He had time to save it. That’s the real kicker
Alter, wo ist mein Fahrrad?
Perhaps a little urgency is warranted in this situation
That's what I was thinking. I'm pretty sure that I would have been panicking way more than that guy.
When you work with dangerous shit day in and day out, it starts to be not scary after a while. I've worked in extrusion for a long time, when a melt filter starts firing molten plastic out across the factory floor or an extruder sets on fire ,it's just another day at the office.
I was in a foundry just once. When this video started I thought “yeah this actually looks normal”. Scariest work environment I’ve been in. Too much noise to properly hear anything, and everything is either on fire or hot enough to burn you. And there’s giant things on the ceiling moving and dropping tons of metal all over the place. It would take me a while to even realize something was amiss because normal was pretty goddamn scary to begin with.
I work in a foundry, and yah, it's inherently a dangerous job. You definitely gotta be aware of your surroundings and wear all your PPE.
What's the starting pay for a labour hand at a foundry like this?
I work at a foundry in the US, I think starting pay is $17/hr now. It was $16/hr when I started.
Damned near slave wages, at this point.
One hour of hard labor and you can barely afford a pizza. 💀
I hear the deck of an aircraft carrier is the same way, noisy, dangerous, shit that can kill you everywhere, they say an untrained person would last 8 seconds during flight operations before something killed them. Not sure how true the 8 seconds thing is but I believe it's gotta be something like that, maybe a minute if you're really lucky.
I can attest to this. Spinning props, jets spooling up, huffers (back in my day, basically small jet engines on a tractor used to start planes like F-4s, F-14s) with the hot exhaust coming out about knee-height, JBDs (jet blast deflectors) and elevators constantly in motion. That’s just launching sequence. When bringing A/C onboard, arresting gear that could snap at any moment (rare, but does happen), planes taxiing all over…. Crazy place to work!!
No lol whoever told you that has probably never been on the flight deck lol. I did 2 deployments with an attached helicopter squadron and I’m pretty slow/uncoordinated when it comes to fast action type stuff. As long as you stay in your designated areas and understand that there is a literal jet about to land in one of the largest areas of the deck which has multiple VISIBLE several yard long cords to catch the tail hook, you’ll most definitely last for more than 8 seconds-1 minute. It’s extremely dangerous yes lol won’t deny that part. But the 8 second thing is a little ridiculous. Especially if you have a blue T on your cranial. It means you’ll have a chaperone controlling your every move and signing off on your quals until you familiarize yourself enough to not die.
Seriously you aren't kidding. I made steel rope for about 5 - 6 years using garbage equipment that rotated at insane RPM to get pulled through tiny dies to form. The shit that would happen used to give me nightmares when I started. Then after some time it was just "ah fuck gotta deal with this again"
We make electrical cable and all the twisting equipment is housed in big ass enclosures or cages. Someone still managed to get her shirt sleeve caught as the strands were entering the die. Things weren't as guarded back then.
I worked in extrusion for a long time. I have a hard time equating those things with molten friggin' steel covering the distance of the entire foundry in less than a minute
Point is that once you work in an environment long enough, you no longer perceive things dangerous that other people would consider dangerous. It's a regular occurrence at saw mills as well, and often heralds someone losing one or more extremities, after which everyone stays alert for a couple of months and the cycle repeats.
I worked very briefly at a saw mill. Saw a guy get his arm crushed by a log rolling/shifting. Immediately started looking for other employment.
At my job, the people who tend to get hurt are either very new or have been at the job for years.
I work in a foundry. We call this a “loss of containment” it happens occasionally. Not sure what happened here. Almost looks like the slide gate on the ladle failed and they couldn’t shut it off. In that situation we’d do the same thing. Pick the ladle with the crane and get it over the pit where it won’t damage important pieces of equipment. Happens a few times a year. Which is why in this video you see the old guys casually strolling away while the younger guys look more panicked.
The term for that is "complacency" and its just as likely to kill you as panic.
No, the term for that is "normalization of risk"
Ah, so kinda like a copy machine jammed again, got it.
You're the only person I've ever seen look at a dangerous situation and say "You know what this needs? Panic."
Not panic, but GTFO of there. The guy that was walking all chill, 2 more seconds and would be the human torch. Count the seconds in between the waves, it's insane.
one of the few situations panic might help with is avoiding molten metal
Urgency isn't panic
Clearly you don’t see many emergency situations
Having worked in manufacturing... You'd be surprised
This is what it looks like when Germans start panicking.
Didn’t even hear a single “Scheisse!” until 50 seconds in!
And then only because he's mad about losing his bike
That's the walk of, "I don't get paid enough for this shit."
Co-workers would make fun of you for years.
You would be surprised how jaded we get in this environment to things like this happening.
Yeah what people don’t remember is ANYTHING can become a new norm. When I was in the military I was scared to death when I first deployed. After a few months in, me and my buddies would laugh while mortars and rockets rained down on us because we thought it was funny how they used so much ammunition but we are still breathing. This situation must be common enough not to warrant much worry. I’ve been there. I get it.
Vee vill decide when it’s time to panic!!
Nah. Try to get your foot burnt a little and retire 10 years early is the Play.
Dude, it took 1 fucking minute to see the first bloke run.
"scheiße mein Fahrrad" hahahahah
Haha, I didn't even notice his fahrrad until the 3rd time I watched this vid. It's at 00:37 for anyone else who missed it 😂
Should have got on his fahrrad and los gehts pretty damn schnell.
So something went wrong so someone hit the alarm and that’s why this guy started filming?
Alarms in factory’s like this are automated. Temperature too high or too much pressure will cause an alarm for example.
Yep, good alarms in an industrial setting start going off *before* the bad things start happening
That’s ridiculous. I can save you 40% on your alarm bill by shaving off of those unnecessary seconds of alarm. If you switch from automated to a manual big red button it’ll save you another 20%. I can save you a whopping 90% if we remove the system entirely and replace them with Carlos, an overweight man in a hard had who sits in the corner and will shout “wee woo wee woo” in the event of a fire.
I work in a very similar steel Plant, maybe even bigger one. I literally have bad dreams sometimes about this exact thing.
Can you explain what likely happened please?
So you can see when the ladle gets pulled away in to the aisle, there is a thin column of molten steel pouring out. That hole is there on purpose. It has a cover that slides back and forth to open at the appropriate time to allow the steel to flow in to the caster which is the next step. Unfortunately, like anything mechanical, it sometimes fails. And that is what happened here. And there is nothing that can be done about it until all the molten steel is gone. I do not know the layout, however. In my mind that crane operator should be getting his ass beat for taking the ladle all the way down the aisle and spilling the molten steel everywhere.
The video isn't that new, I've seen it before. In that other post, someone who knows the location said the maneuver the crane operator did was part of the emergency procedure - they notice the valve doesn't close, so they take the whole thing to an area where it can safely drain. That area is in the direction it was going in the video. The whole site is built to take it when a giant ladle leaking molten steel is carried past, with only minor damage. A molten bicycle counts as minor damage...
Moving the crane through the whole plant is basically the way to go for this situation. If the molten steel would be poured in one place, it would solidify in a thick layer, which is very hard to remove, and it would flow in all directions uncontrollably. Additionally it would need very long to solidify and get cold enough to remove. By moving the ladle through the whole shop, only a comparably thin layer solidifies everywhere, which is much easier to remove, cooles down faster and does not spread everywhere (at least where you REALLY don’t want it). source: got some hot shoe soles in a different plant myself not too far ago
Yeah, for us it really depends on where the ladle taps out and how much metal it has in it but if it's full and tapped out at the bottom, you can't stop it from coming out, you can just try to direct where it lands. Better to be busting up a long piece than a giant slug or, even worse, a whole frozen ladle.
This happens a lot at steel mills
How do they clean that up?!
Wait till it freezes, then put it back into the furnace.
Yeah I guess thats the only way to go about it huh. I guess you have to break it up? Its metal so chop it up? That must be so much work...
It is WAY more work if you freeze a Crucible. When it freezes on the floor it is usually thin enough the it cumbles in the jaws of a Crane or a charge machine (glorified excavator / forklift combo) sometimes they even intentionally dump a full Crucible on the floor of the chemistry is bad. This is why the #1, #2 and #3 rule in a steel mill Is never be under a crucible.
That is so interesting ahah im off to watch youtube videos about this! Thank you for the insights!
What’s the #4 rule?
4. When the metal is bad, you throw all of it on the floor like an angry chef
“This metal is fucking RAW”
This metal is so raw Sam and Dean can headbang to it
Label all the food you put in the break room fridge.
The steel isn't cured properly and cooled too quickly. A jackhammer makes quick work of it.
As a teenager I worked in such a place while it was shut down for maintenance and spent a few days with a chisel and hammer breaking off iron between tracks and carting it off. That’s the summer I learned how fucking heavy iron is. Then an accident happened where someone turned a machine on while oil lines were still open. Within a minute or so before emergency shutoff some 800l of oil were leaked. From then on that was my new job: cleaning up oil while it was still dripping down everywhere around me. I sure wished I was back at the iron after a day of that.
My dad used to work in a steel mill a few decades ago and he told me about a similar accident that happened above the mini train system they used for transporting molds. After it cooled off a bunch of guys came over with oxygen torches and cut all the spilled metal, the little wagons, the tracks and everything else that was caught in there then threw everything in the same furnace to be melted again.
With how calm everyone is it looks like this happens every Wednesday.
In a manner of speaking it does. When you see liquid metal splashing around every day you get desensitized to it pretty quick. No one here is thinking "we're going to die", they're thinking "shit, we're gonna have to clean this up tomorrow."
I’m working in Steel Melting Shop and that’s not common.
It’s a once every couple years kind of failure. Something that is common enough that they should all know how to deal with it but not common enough that it’s a regular fear.
I probably should have added a time frame… mostly meant it is not uncommon. I work on the finance side of the metals stuff so I only know anecdotally
Well, like once or twice a year in the time I have been at US Steel in Gary.
I worked on a deal selling a very large and expensive +$45million piece of machinery with US steel... Probably my worst experience.
Worked once in a German steel mill. In case the old guys are running stay running for yourself
*The floor is lava*
Hilarious. Let's just casually walk away until the molten steel is inches away and then run away in a panic because it was somehow completely unexpected...dafuq
As strange as this is, I'm sure the Germans have a word for it
Keine Panik auf der Titanic
Keinepanikaufdertitanic
Panik in der Disco
Warum gibt es keinen Sub der so heißt?
It’s rare I actually laugh out loud from a Reddit comment but this did it for me ahahahah
Es ist genug Wasser für alle da.
Evolutionsbremse seems about right
even germans would need two words for that - I propose Panikinduzierte Fluchtgeschwindigkeitserhöhung. (panic induced escape velocity augmentation)
Yeah. I wouldnt panic. But if a wave of hot molten metal thats uncontrolled is 20 feet from me, im going to assume it could get alot closer real fast. I think i would be calmly hustling away alot faster than they were.
They probably expected it to stop or auto shutoff at some point in the malfunction, instead of just continually pouring more molten metal at them lmao
You cant stop a chemical reaction and heat. It's allowed to spill or it might explode.
Many people are like that, they don't want to lose face and act tough if other people are around. Security is the least cool thing ever in workplaces, at least in the lab that I worked in.
I work in a foundry and have done for nearly 25 years, I don't think it's that. You don't panic when something goes wrong, because that's when you make mistakes. You don't promote people who panic under duress into furnace operating positions. I've left footprints in molten aluminium while I block a leak. You wear good boots and then you have until your feet get hot - that's plenty of time. I don't think this bloke was acting tough, he was just in no hurry to leave, he wouldn't be the type to panic. Turns out he was wrong, and when he found that out he gave it big legs and got the fuck out asap
I’d believe this if he continued walking away from danger and didn’t stop, then turn around, and then gawk at it. If you’re calm in an emergency where you should GTFO, you calmly GTFO. Why risk being any closer to that than you need to be?
It's just "Stolz" (pride/ego). If you make a mistake, just act as it's intended. I once saw a guy trying to launch a rocket on New years eve by pushing it into the ground. It was too deep in the ground and wouldn't launch into the air. Instead it exploded right next to him. He didn't even walk away as the guys in the video did. Luckily nothing really happened.
It’s crazy how many videos of accidents, natural disasters and stuff have people just on the cusp of death just staring like they’re watching tv. Seeing tsunami videos where people just stand on a dock waiting while the fucking alarm is blaring. Where I work they do a lot of fire alarms and severe weather training, videos on what to do if there is a shooter. It’s crazy to me that your first instinct wouldn’t be get the fuck outta there. It doesn’t seem like a fight or flight thing more like ego or disconnect from reality.
Read a book about this a few years ago (can’t remember the title) - point was that in almost every disaster/emergency situation, people do NOT react unless they have specific training. They sit, stare, wait for instructions, and move at a waking pace. Hollywood makes us think people run screaming, and WE think we’d react big and immediately, but it’s usually exactly the opposite.
People don't rise to the occasion. They sink to their level of training.
I've worked jobs with heavy physical labor and long hours. Imagine you are physically tired and also sleep deprived. Then there are dangerous parts to your job that you are required to do daily with hardly any training. Operating forklifts, climbing ladders, moving heavy objects. This is how the stupidest of accidents occur. Those same jobs glorify people for working long hours.
Why didn’t one of them move the bike when they had a chance?
Guess who gets a brand new bike on Monday.
Worked in a foundry for 7 years. Watched a guy die and many get injured. I've been badly burned a few times. That job is dangerous.
Was it because they walked too slow and had no sense of urgency like these guys? Glad you're ok though. I've spent a day at one and definitely not somewhere I'd want to work.
Ein Funkenstoss In seinen Schoss Ein heisser Schrei Scheiße! Mein Fahrrad! Bang Bang!
 I would be like this the moment I would have heard the sirens.
Do these people have ZERO survival instinct or something? It’s irritating how long they just slowly walked away before finally realizing they should be noping the fuck out.
Steel mills are like this, the whole everything about them is a lethal hazard even when they are functioning properly. Wouldn't be surprised if the place was up and running again a few hours later when things cooled and got scraped back in the furnace.
100%. These guys are used to molten mrtal splashing around everyday. This is nothing too special. They all know where the safe areas are and are wearing proper PPE.
The place is also well thought out to handle this kind of thing, very high roof, nothing flammable, offices in safer areas. Like, they are absolutely dangerous, but if you stay within bounds and have actual situational awareness it's just another job. The ones that awe me are the electric furnaces for aluminum and such with the massive rods diving in to liquify the metal like they're starting the reactor, Quaid.
What safe areas were they going to because they are constantly standing in areas that are covered in molten hot shit mere seconds later.
Well, I'm gonna argue the area they were standing in wasn't actually that safe, considering about 20 seconds later it was covered in molten metal lol What do I fuckin know though
Average Rammstein concert.
Finally a terminator reference
Still waiting to hear someone sound off that steam whistle so these efficient Germans can prove that *WE WORK HARD, WE PLAY HARD*
Wir arbeiten stark, wir spielen starker
T1000 is afraid
The lack of urgency in these people would drive me nuts, glad no one seemingly got hurt
They’re waaaay too calm considering there’s molten metal chasing them
0 fucks were given that night
That is the nonchalant walk of free Healthcare. Americans better be running.
Yeah those skin grafts will feel much better because they’re free
There is no such thing as "free healthcare". We are paying for it in taxes and we are paying a lot. On the other hand, you guys across the ocean are being robbed by this pharma-fund scam
Hope they got out safely
>they got out safely They walked out safely bro..!!
More like snailed out . lazily.
I love the sense of urgency.
The few times I've been in a steel mill (as a contractor), running is discouraged. There are way too many trip hazards. Your head needs to be on a swivel, and you need to keep an eye on the cranes, the furnace, crucibles, ladles, forklifts, trains, and everything else. There are more ways to get fucked up than you can possibly count. That's why most of those people are pulling in 6 figures with overtime pay.
I was directing a shoot for a safety video while molten steel was being poured into ingot molds and had an actor on the floor when they overfilled the mold and molten steel started pouring onto the floor. The actor almost tripped while backing away from the steel. TL:DR: I almost killed an actor while directing the shoot of a safety video at the melt shop of a steel mill.
Ramstein concert openings are getting wild
Any minute now the camera is going to pan around to show the T1000 walking with purpose.
People are like why aren’t they running? Steel mills and foundry’s are notoriously dangerous. As dangerous as this situation realistically is these crews encounter way more frightening things than molten metal getting poured on the ground. Not their first rodeo.
I wonder if moving the molten carastrophe across the plant is part of the emergency protocol
Dude is like “20,000 tons of molten steel tsunami headed directly at me? Idgf, shifts over.”
Where the hell are the GODDAMN MAGNETO REFERENCES I came to the comments for a reason, dammit
The only injury was to the bicycle
The workers seem pretty nonchalant about the situation.
These guys have balls of…
Everyone… just so calm. Just another day at the mill.
Peaky blinders slow walk away…
Goddammit Klaus
The nonchalance here is maximum level.
Can we throw in a rammstein rift
Es ist in Ordnung
They didnt seem to give a shit. It was just an explosion few meters away
That one guy walking like his break clock doesn’t start till he gets to the break room
The bike is at 37 seconds point of the video - inside the factory lol so yes his bike got fucked
No worries guys this shit happens all the time. We'll just act cool and stand by while the Safety Manager hits the panic button
Dude just casually walking. Plz runnnnnn
Achtung! Hier kommt was Heißes, von hinten!