Video: Steel plant fail
Category: LOL!
Uploader: Professionalpoker

Quote:

Originally Posted by Professionalpoker

At a steel plant in Poland, an accident occurs that spread red hot tubes of melty steel goodness.

Cool-Looking Accident In Steel Factory

that would be a real bitch to clean up.

the workers seem eerily calm and un-phased.

needs lightsaber sound effects

its more like a deathstar malfunction.

steel plant rave party

whatever you do, do not cross the streams

I don't understand this at all, weren't they like 15ft away?

Yeah, and that stuff is about 300 degrees (Celcius). I think they were further away than it looked.

That reminds me of Riki-Oh.

About 5 times that I'd say.

You're right. It's too long ago that I got my engineering degree.

i hear Polish people...

ghosts

it seemed like that kind of thing happens on the reg at their plant.

Wow, I wonder how they clean that up. Cool it down then chop it up? Would be sick if that huge arch stayed up.

I was wondering about that procedure as well. Figure that line will be out of commission for two or three days.

I work at a Steel Mill. That is called a cobble... essentially as the bar passes through stands and is compressed sometimes the entry pass to the next stand isn't dialed in properly or the bar doesn't enter correctly. I would guess they were starting up a new run after a changeover which is why all the guys were standing there. When i worked on a rolling mill like that one i have seen bars slam into stands and shoot 100 feet into the air.

It takes like 2 to 10 minutes to clean up with a couple of cutting torches and an overhead crane. You cut the bar (its around 1800-1900 degrees F) which is easy because its so hot and then chain it to a crane and pull it out of the way to be chopped up and recycled later.

Now i work where steel is melted and its a lot more dangerous (you have to be a little off to do our kind of work). Here is a video from my job... that i am actually in.... a supervisor made it for new hires so they knew what they were getting into to. This is at Nucor Steel in Seattle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hnXMI_LK7k

So Crazy Donkey, on a scale of 1-OMGOMGWTF!!! how hot is your workspace on a daily basis?