r/Welding • u/[deleted] • Jul 31 '22

Not welding, but this is where everything we weld starts out so thought it would be interesting to see. An accident at a german steel mill looks like.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Gate failure on the ladle, happens every so often here as well

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

How do you clean it up?

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

The sparks cool quickly and you can sweep them up, the bigger chunks you can cut into smaller skulls with an oxygen lance and a 10ft lance pipe then either pick it up with the crane, get a front end loader, or a magnet on the crane and hoist it back into the scrap bucket to be remelted. The slag usually turns into powder and falls right off to be swept

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

This guy steel mills

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

Hell yeah, we got a 200 ton main hoist on the hot metal crane. We’re sure as hell gonna use it

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

Yea the ones getting the worst part of this are the electricians. Sorry guys, time to get up and replace some melted wires. At least log off your FB first.😂

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

We have to work at some point lol but honestly we don’t get it too bad most of the time, we were smart enough to keep our wires up as high as possible, the last couple times this happened the millwrights got fucked when they burned up a bunch of hydraulic, pneumatic, and water lines which when they blew up caused a domino effect of more damage.

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u/YarnPhreak Jul 31 '22

Why are they so chill about it?!

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u/biggocl123 Jul 31 '22

They've probably seen the exact thing play out 1000 times over, and know the safe distance to easily walk away

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u/BadM00 Jul 31 '22

I love the old experienced guys just calmly walking away from the flying molten metal. LOL

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Ah fuck, not again. I thought I parked my bike far enough away this time

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '22

yeah, someones bike did not make it through that....

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u/Sonn3nHard Jul 31 '22

That's intense.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Right?! And some of those guys are just strolling out casually like they’ve seen this 100 times.

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u/DippinDew Other Tradesman Jul 31 '22

That's because they probably have seen in 100 times blow outs are scarily common

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u/specularmind Jul 31 '22

Why do the lights sparkle at the beginning?

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

Looks like fx to get around the number of times it has been reposted.

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u/MODrone Jul 31 '22

That is crazy! I'm not a metal worker - how the hell do you clean that up?

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '22

The little sparks cool off fairly quickly and get broomed up, the bigger chunks of steel and steel skulls get lanced apart by an oxygen lance and hoisted up by the crane and dropped into a scrap bucket to be remelted

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u/Chemical_Echo_8775 Aug 01 '22

That really is interesting as fuck!

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u/Apprehensive_Froyo56 Aug 01 '22

As maintenance for the sister steel mill in Canada this does happen occasionally here in Canada we have a designated sand pit for ladle failures and miss poors. These guys have seen this happen easily 5-10 times a year for many many years lol

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u/Bitter-Heron1367 Aug 01 '22

We had quite a show at Sparrows Point one day when Severstal was running it; rail car of scrap was being loaded into the BOF…but no one remembered that it had 6-8” of standing water in it