I spent over 30 years inspecting, repairing and modernizing overhead cranes. The one thing I could not fix was bad operators. Fortunately, they usually don't last long.
@@pyrofestimo I worked at Zenar, Crane Pro, P&H Material Handling (Pro Care) and Orley-Meyer Kone Landell (Konecranes) as overhead crane field services tech. Rigger / erector / welder / electrician (VFD's, contactor logic / DC magnet cranes). Most large cranes (like a foundry or steel mill hot pot melt bay class F ladle crane) today are operated from a shielded room up high overlooking work area, glass windows all around like a bay window, a ship's bridge. That's common on the 300 Ton and up cranes (I've rebuilt a 900 ton ladle crane.) Smaller cranes like in a pickling or heat treat line (65 Ton - 300 Ton) are remote control operated by man walking the floor with load. Or by a dangling hard-wired pendant. I did work on a very old Shawbox melt bay ladle crane with rivetted fish belly girders that had a round bottom operator bucket hung under catwalk off G1. I also had to repair a large magnet crane with an operator's bucket up on the crane still in use. It was a magnet crane for scrap steel that came in on rail. Bridge of crane had hydraulic brakes. Control yoke was an early Harnischfeger inductive reactance ferrite plunger on bellcrank joystick style. I am a terrible operator. I mean terrible! But I think I got pretty good at fixin' a crane! Crane operator control buckets up under the crane catwalk all look the same: An electric space heater. The last electric space heater that broke and got replaced. It sits not too far away. Maybe they get emotionally attached? Porno. pigeon crap. foundry dust.
@@ioreodream that one would have been easier than some I have done. Less junk. First step is take a long bar, think like a plow,lol.. And plow thru the middle of it. And man is it hot. Break up as much as possible while doft. Then air chisels , finally torches. Trick is get it while it's hot.
So what happened here the hook didn't release? Or what? I work with commercial equipment constantly as well at being a firefighter so my mind is really thinking what's at fault as well as how to fight this if it blows out of proportion.
My grandfather worked in a lead refinery back in the 1950s. His I.D. card was stamped steel, because if you got caught in an accident like this, that would be the only thing left of you.
In the 80s I worked in a iron foundry, a transfer ladle 1/2 this size shorted out and dumped just a few feet from a guy, 60% of his body burned. Absolutely preventable, it had been acting up for 2 weeks
My grandson witnessed a death at an aluminum foundry. Even though he was a fearless bear of a man, this stressed him pretty bad. All he could say was "I didn't know a human could make a sound like that." Two weeks later an aneurysm exploded in his brain and he died too. I watch this video and try to imagine what he had seen
Ikr? I was like "wow, that's a little bucket, it's probably bigger than I think it is." And then the grown man walks into frame 🤣 DEFINITELY bigger than the camera made it seem.
I worked in a steel fabrication mill for about three months when I graduated high school, pay was about $10 an hour (good money back in the day for a pile of goo like I was) Hated that job but I tried to stick with it so I wouldn't look like the pile of goo that I was. I was a light crane operator, picking up steel beams about ten to twenty feet long and feeding them into a punch press to stamp holes in them. Still can't believe they let me do that job with NO training. One day at lunch they were talking about a co worker who was just getting out of the hospital and going into prosthetic rehab and training. "Wait, what?" I asked, "prosthetic rehab - what's that?" "Oh, he had an accident where his leg was crushed completely and had to be amputated........" Everyone went silent and awkwardly coughing and clearing their throats and whispering and shushing. After lunch was over I asked my co worker about it and he reluctantly told me that he was the guy that worked my position before me. I quit that job with no notice at the end of that week on payday.
When my grandfather was 16 he and his friend went to take a job at a local saw mill in the early 1940's during their summer break in high school. Good pay and they figured good gig for a summer. The hiring manager was asking them things like "are you sure you want this job?" while interviewing. The last part of the interview they took them out on the floor for a tour of the facility. My grandfather noticed that no one working on the floor had all their fingers and/or hands/arms. He and his buddy left and never took the job. A year later my grandfather lied about his age to join the Marines and fight in WW2. He'd do war but he wouldn't do this bullshit.
I worked in an aluminum die cast plant. Saw two furnaces blow up. One beside my machine. A lift operator left his lift between me and the furnace. The only thing that saved me. Saw molten aluminum pored in the floor several times. Almost had my foot it it once. Yes, it will melt concrete. Yep, I am a lucky guy.
I work at a steel mill, and have seen this happen multiple times. Never seen anyone get fired, usually just put in a different position or department. One guy did over a million dollars in damage and now he runs the saftey department.
I worked in the Heavy Foundry at Sheffield Forgemasters for 40 years, we made castings with a finished weight of 350 tonne, with 7 ladles simultaneously pouring 650 tonnes of molten steel, I've seen moulds leak before which has resulted in molten steel all over the shop floor, but I've never seen a crane tip over a ladle. The way the driver was laying the legs down was an accident waiting to happen.
The bail is made to be laid over like that. The issue it he was traveling before the hook lowed clear of the bails. Simple rule of thumb for all crane operations is one movement at a time ie lift or lower to the height you need then travel. Anyone with a little experience can easily move the crane around in three dimensions but there are times when its just better to stick to doing things as simply as possible. I worked at what was the worlds largest Aluminium and one issue we had to deal with that most places dont is the magnetic field generated by the massive current flow on the pot lines (pots or cells as they are know is what the aluminium is smelted in). The magnetic field was strong enough to get your hook caught on the lift point. We used to have 3 ton forklifts tow each other around by just butting the counter weights up against each other.
And what debrief steps should we take after an event such as this safety officer: go outside lean against a sturdy wall look up to the sky and thank your lucky star that you're alive and smoke 5 cigarettes at the same time. Chain smoking them is not an approved debrief Move 😂😂.
i know someone who dumped a FIVE GALLON BUCKET OF GREEN PLASTIC DYE on herself - she had to leave work that day -and for 2 weeks her arms and parts of her face were green. they had to have an employee meeting to make everyone stop teasing her! LOL - this was more dangerous, for sure - but that girl at our plant takes the cake for looking/feeling like an ass.
Its subjective. Some people feel some amount of stress when talking to people while others feel same amount of stress when fighting for life. So i guess he feels same as the guy who spills gallon of paint.
My grandpa died in this kind of accident at work. In 1987, 50 tons of molten steel tipped over somehow and fell/splashed right on him and a few other workers. 4 people died that day. I never got to know him sadly, I heard he was a great man
Anyone who had ever welded or handled molten metals like this knows what happens to a concrete floor when it gets this hot. The top layer explodes as the air pockets heat up. Much of what you see happening after the spill is the concrete exploding.
I worked at Bethlehem steel and at 300’ away you could feel the heat off that kettle when they poured it. Burning slag would fly in all directions, it was something to see. Ppl have no idea how dangerous and truly wild a place like that is.
I do. I'm 1500 miles away and tensed up just seeing how close those men get to that thing. I gotta stop watching these videos. I'm gonna have a heart attack. And I thought bakery ovens were hot, cereal ovens were hot, and I once was fire walking all drunk and stupid. Stepped in a hole and landed in the glowing hell below me on my side. Hopped out. I was burned to crisp from finger tip to shoulder, both arms. Facial hair singed, only time since high school I didn't sport a mustache, burned it off, but it grew back. Me no like molten metal, neither. You guys are nuts working around that stuff. Must pay real well?
@@trentstewart2558 OUCH MAN!😳 I’m glad you’re ok now, that’s brutal. Those mills are all gone now. It’s a giant Amazon hub amongst other warehouses now which is depressing. My Grandfather worked there after he served in WWII for 40 years as did many that lived around Baltimore and it’s so sad to see it all gone. Now the bridge is gone after the ship took it down. There were 11 major chemical plants around that area too, only one remains. We outsourced everything to other countries…..
@@tipsymcstagger623 I checked. The closest people in frame were walking away when it fell. If it was hot enough maybe they hurt their eyes and got a couple burns. Maybe.
I've seen an accident like this first hand and its fucking terrifying seeing 2800° iron rushing at you with the consistency of water I'm forever thankful I ran track all through school
Seems like a floor consisting of a thick steel grate suspended over an empty space (or not) would give it someplace to go. Expensive, but no spilled liquids melting people.
@@paulkahler6373 exactly, or barriers or gutters to halt waves of molten metal from spreading around the plant... Would likely only need them in key areas too...
I’m saving this to my UA-cam favorites so that every time I have a shitty day, I can rewatch this and know that at least I didn’t melt the warehouse floor with molten lava.
@@vanquisher4700 i indeed believe you're wrong. I think you have some other metal in mind. But then again i didn't check. Also i would like to point out that lava is per definition molten (pointed at the original comment).
@@0623kaboom One would think the company would have iron-clad (no pun intended) operating instructions and process steps laid out for a responsibility like this. Will never know the facts leading up to or the consequences though, will we?
You know its hot when everything explodes and you enter black and white mode (aka almost dying screen) and it suddenly becomes nighttime and the floor is sparkling and you don't know your name anymore
@@scotcheggable Still really bright though. I've spilled a 4kg crucible of molten aluminum on concrete before. It is bright and terrifying. The shimmering you're seeing is any moisture (from humidity) trapped in the floor bring explosively turned into steam and throwing molten metal all over the place. Yeah the camera totally overcompensates on the white balance, but it's still just ridiculously bright.
As an H&S Engineer, I can identify at least a dozen of non-conformities. It’s always “I know this job, don’t tell me how to do it” in the beginning, but when the shait hits the fan, their big mouth shrinks to atomic size.
He stopped his vehicle at the top left of the video and got out to talk to another worker. They were both there when it happened and I’m sure had to run for their lives. He totally should not been driving though there and parking to get out by the vehicle in this area. Even though the crane operator should not be distracted by anything, this might have been part of the distraction. It would be great to see the aftermath and how something like this is cleaned up.
Curious as to who is actually running the crane. Is it the guy who came and checked the cauldron and then walked off to the left? Or is it someone remotely we do not see on video. Not sure how you cannot have your eyeballs on that thing the whole time. I often run an overhead crane moving tons of sheet glass and crates of sheet glass at a time and you just never take your eyes off of it. At least not while it is moving and you know when it is moving. Boggles my mind. But others have been killed doing what I do and other jobs like it. It takes extreme carelessness but it has been done.
by looking at the floor space and size of the metal pillars/equipment and stuff you would figure that pot is half the size of an M1-abrams tank, which it is
@@BoleDaPole More people have died in Amazon warehouses of heart attacks brought on by dehydration than were killed by Jeffrey Dahmer The mistake Jeffrey Dahmer made was not to kill in the pursuit of profit...
@@SoakieCatNah you would be dead instantly. That level of heat would flash fry your brain. You would fucking explode as all the water in your body basically converts to steam instantly.
@@BlindSquirrel666 That appears to be lead. But with lead & aluminum being non ferrous metals more than likely its the infrared of the camera making it appear that way.
I think one of the other things is the possibility that the material on the floor may also be causing it as it may handle small spills but not a whole container from spilling and possibly metal dust and could be igniting causing this
The guy top left is literally pointing as it as it starts to tip. It's at that point in my nightmares I normally realise my legs suddenly don't work and I can't move or run.
Totally. This happens frequently in my dreams. The need to run fast or even take off flying but I can't run fast at all because my legs are like cement blocks
Bob probably kept his job. Imagine hiring some random pussy off the street and training him to do this, good luck with that. That's an intense job. He obviously made a huge mistake, but considering the position he's in, he probably learned from it and would do everything to prevent that from happening again. From management in a production metal shop, shit fucking happens, and it's hard to find guys to replace an old timer. Dudes probably done this 1,000 times but got complacent and continued moving backwards when he should have paused and moved a little forward to complete the lift safely. Sure he fucked up, but I doubt they could replace him in an instant. The working man is hard to come by these days
I once worked in a foundry. Something similar but much smaller happened. That was the only time in my life I found myself running before I had a thought about it!
(sees one person walk into frame) Oh _no_ (sees him touch the bucket) Oh _NO_ (he walks away) Okay phew (two people and an electric vehicle are now in frame) *_OH NO_*
I had a relative that was killed in an industrial accident involving a crane at an aluminum smelter. He left behind behind a wife and two young children. Very dangerous places. This video made me think of him.
I’m sorry for your loss. What a horrifying way to go. When the cauldron thingy tipped over the only thing going through my head was did anyone get hurt?
I work as a fabricator welder and in our factory we often have to move large steel pieces about, anything from a few hundred kilograms up to 5 metric tons. I always look back at the crane after i've unhooked something because i'm terrified of this happening. This level of carelessness is completely unforgivable and he just didn't do his due diligence at all.
I was expecting a puddle of glowing liquid, not an instant portal into hell. Edit: Wow. Didn't expect this comment to get so much attention. If only my actual content was so entertaining 😂
As a retired metal worker, this here is pure nightmares. Like a furnace explosion, a press double load (common), or a lathe bite, this is the stuff that keeps you up at night.
@@goyslop4289 i could imagine something like in an automated process when a pressed part doesn´t clear the mold and is stuck on top, the next raw piece gets loaded, press comes down and spatters hot metal all around at high speeds...but just guessing...op has to clear that one up for you
@@itswilliee this one knows! 😆😂 Keep safe guys. You all who know, know too well. You all who don't, remember if you ever work in industry, all that safety crap they put you through is for a reason. In the big picture, what happened here could've been even worse. Mistakes happen. Look out for one another.
Yep. I'm also a metal worker, mostly welding constructions, but also everything else that has to be done, and I've seen some bad stuff happening in all my years at work. Thank god, no deadly accidents so far, but often times there was big luck involved that nobody got seriously injured.
I worked at US Steel hot rolled plate mill, nothing like having 40,000 pounds of red hot steel rolling by. The scale of machinery was immense, seeing steel ingots being cooked in a blast furnace when the furnace doors would open it was like looking into the gates of hell.
@@ignitablevirus7644 It was pretty wild and dangerous. It was 1978 and the worst most dangerous job I had was hitting the right hand corner of red hot steel with a sledge hammer to imprint an unique number on the plate of steel, if I slipped and feel onto the steel I would have literally been toast, no protection, no nothing for safety equipment. When I got home my sister thought I was sun burned from sitting on the beach as my face was beet red.
@@J.J.J.J.J.J.J There's was a joke on Leave it to Beaver like that. He flooded the water in the tub, and said something like, "All those poor bugs that may have drowned."
I had a similar predicament; I ran over my kid with my car this morning but then I remembered how many kids die in hazardous working conditions so I brushed it off.
Man, they run whole pots of molten material on fork trucks thru these foundries with folks everywhere. One drop of water and everyone in a 15-foot radius is toast.
Having worked in a foundry, this should never happen, but it isn't surprising that it did. The mentality of the workers and management I experienced in the early 70's was cavalier at best. The equipment was was ancient and poorly maintained. The workers seemed to have the IQ of a gnat and cared nothing about the equipment or themselves. I, along with the supervisor, witnessed a worker ram a brand new forklift with one of the old ratty ones, defacing the finish and destroying one of the flashers on the new unit because "It didn't fit in." to raucous laughter by all, including the supervisor. I saw a sheetmetal flume constructed from the cupolo to the city sewer to divert the burning slag that couldn't go to the quench tank because the bucket lift was broken down. The EPA/OSHA officer pitched a fit and it was torn down, but as soon as he was out of sight it was built back. Hopefully, things have changed in the industry, but if this video is any indication, it doesn't appear it has or at least not enough.
Not having worked in a foundry, yeah....this should never happen. I’m fairly certain that “spill giant vat of molten metal” is not part of the standard operating procedure. But then again, I haven’t worked in a foundry so take what I said with a grain of salt.
It hasn’t changed at least at the company I work for. The plant was built in the 50’s and very few changes have been made over the years. We still tap the furnaces by hand with 30 ft long x 1/2” solid steel bar. FeSi metal coming out of the furnace about 2800 Fahrenheit. Very dirty and hot working atmosphere at times.
The extension on our scissor lift is(was) held by four pins that pull out and hang off of the lift so they don't get lost. Technicians have cut them off 17 times.
Trust me, I've seen something like this with Iron, but only half the volume: NOBODY would need to be informed about the lava floor. That is something everybody realises lightning fast.
The guy on the cart that went by is probably thanking his lucky rabbits foot that he was not there when it fell or what’s left of this might have ended up as a statue !! 😮
Crane operator was in a hurry, plain and simple. As a retired high voltage lineman, my elders taught me to take my time and work smart, you'll get more done than the guy who runs around like a brace and bit. And go home at night alive. Words I'll never forget and got me to retirement.
I don't understand what happened though, did the crane operator not see that it was still caught? Did he not feel some resistance? How far from the crane was he?
@@tdeo2141 The crane operator had to be in sight of the hook and operation. Regardless , we always would have a man watching and directing the operator from the ground point of view. The operator was above, so was unable to get a good view if the hook had dropped far enough to move to the side, which he did in way to fast of a manner. One operation at a time. What happens is you can get into a rhythm and complacent, Haste makes waste, hopefully those two guys on the left didn't get splattered. Molten metal burns deep into flesh, I know.
@@jamescarpenter8125 I see, so he was above… well that explains a lot. I went back to right before the burning metal spilled, I honestly don’t know if those two workers made it. They were maybe 25 meters away? I don’t know how far the splatter would go. What an awful - and 100% preventable - accident!
Ive never heard the brace and bit reference before....i think i understand it - dont work like a chicken with its head cut off - i suppose could be used instead; but im just not seeing the brace and bit reference. Where are braces and bits fastened really quickly? What the hell is a bit? Is that a nail or screw? Electric screw drivers and fasteners? Is that the reference?
Back in the 80's I worked in an iron foundry for engine blocks. We had two cranes lifting ladles. One was a little dodgy and when you got a newby operator and he jolted the thing the crap would spill out over the top. The problems start once the molten metal hits the cold concrete floor. It jumps and goes everywhere. If when doing the slag off on the floor some of it reached you then it was time to do the dance, as in little burning balls finding their way into the top of your fireproof overalls and travelling downward, hopefully not ending up in the tops of your boots.
At first I was like “oh good no one is on the floor while it’s moving” then as every person entered frame “oh god oh god” then as they all walked away “you don’t know how lucky you are sir”
Did the 2 guys in the upper left corner make it out? I could not believe how fast the aluminum poured....expected it to be a bit thicker and slower. They probably did not miss the heat or vapor, though, unfortunately.
When I was traveling doing electrical work. We built a plant like this in Kentucky that smelted for brake rotors for VW. The bucket is literally 15ft tall and huge. The first test they did,the crane company that installed it somehow reversed all settings so when it go forward it went down. And it's all computerized. It dumped (raw metal,not smelted) but if it were it would have killed all of us.
My dad was an electrical worker. The 2 jobs he absolutely refused was power plants and chemical plants. I'd have to add anything with molten metal to that list after hearing that and watching this video
These people are paid by undercover to deliberately sabatog industries and are killing people too. And the government refuses to stop them. I wonder if it's them who are doing it...
*Foreman casually walks over to the safety board, and erases the 10 of the "Days since last incident" plaquard.
Highly underrated comment.
This comment is gold lmfao
People won’t get this unless they work in a plant. Fucking funny 🤣
It’s a sad walk to do that
You're the real mvp for that comment
I feel like they can come up with a better and safer design than swinging pot of lava
better? absolutely.
Safer? 100%
Cheaper? nope.
and thats why we still have swinging pots of lava
@@nuarius you win the internet for today with that comment.
Capitalism, baby!
Operator didn't release the bucket before he moved the crane... human error...
It swings so it can be poured out.
Safety is so overrated... we all die in the end
- dude inspects the cauldron
- everybody watching starts to have anxiety
Hey!.... Don't call me out like that....
I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
@@thecrazyeagle9674 No ! You're not in this video and i don't like it.
Live leak logo appears in the top right 😳
You got me lollll
I spent over 30 years inspecting, repairing and modernizing overhead cranes. The one thing I could not fix was bad operators. Fortunately, they usually don't last long.
The operator of the crane is fine. It's the ones on the floor that have a problem.
@@grantofat6438not if the operator was stuck above the crane inhaling all of that toxic fumes
@@pyrofestimo I worked at Zenar, Crane Pro, P&H Material Handling (Pro Care) and Orley-Meyer Kone Landell (Konecranes) as overhead crane field services tech. Rigger / erector / welder / electrician (VFD's, contactor logic / DC magnet cranes). Most large cranes (like a foundry or steel mill hot pot melt bay class F ladle crane) today are operated from a shielded room up high overlooking work area, glass windows all around like a bay window, a ship's bridge. That's common on the 300 Ton and up cranes (I've rebuilt a 900 ton ladle crane.) Smaller cranes like in a pickling or heat treat line (65 Ton - 300 Ton) are remote control operated by man walking the floor with load. Or by a dangling hard-wired pendant. I did work on a very old Shawbox melt bay ladle crane with rivetted fish belly girders that had a round bottom operator bucket hung under catwalk off G1. I also had to repair a large magnet crane with an operator's bucket up on the crane still in use. It was a magnet crane for scrap steel that came in on rail. Bridge of crane had hydraulic brakes. Control yoke was an early Harnischfeger inductive reactance ferrite plunger on bellcrank joystick style. I am a terrible operator. I mean terrible! But I think I got pretty good at fixin' a crane! Crane operator control buckets up under the crane catwalk all look the same: An electric space heater. The last electric space heater that broke and got replaced. It sits not too far away. Maybe they get emotionally attached? Porno. pigeon crap. foundry dust.
How long does it take to cool enough to be cleaned up?
Maybe dude was working 15 hours a day because company cant afford more workers? Who knows maybe He was tired and tired people make alot of mistakes
As a foundry worker, this is literally my nightmare.
seen it, and cleaned that shit up before. ruined a good pair of boots bar cutting that crap before it cooled too much.
@ross voss how did you clean up all that spilled over metal?
@@ioreodream that one would have been easier than some I have done. Less junk. First step is take a long bar, think like a plow,lol..
And plow thru the middle of it. And man is it hot. Break up as much as possible while doft. Then air chisels , finally torches. Trick is get it while it's hot.
Serious nightmare material.
So what happened here the hook didn't release? Or what? I work with commercial equipment constantly as well at being a firefighter so my mind is really thinking what's at fault as well as how to fight this if it blows out of proportion.
Imagine just chilling and finishing your night shift, then suddenly everything around you turns into a Doom cutscene
Lol first time someone mentioned Doom
@@jaredevans8263 Somebody had to, it was perfect.
I'm here
BFG division starts playing
@@doomslayer960 oh no, HE'S here!
Imagine the forklift driver and two guys who had just walked past it seconds earlier reflecting on their lives.
I counted 13 seconds!!!!
The crane operator have to stop when ppl close to the crane working zone. I have a tower crane operator license
@@1996axon i worked in a such place with melted alumilium and i can tell these rules are not respected, so it couldve happen
Some serious career choices were considered shortly there after.
@@vaiav19 It is a great way to hide the evidence! Won't be much left to recover!
Floor : Became lava
Auto Camera : I think it's night rn.
Camera: Literally impossible to balance the light due to brightness maxing out the sensor
Comment: I think the camera is thinking it's night rn.
For sale: One large sheet of aluminum, rough finish.
For sale, one second hand idiot crane operator!
*Notice*
Sheet of aluminum may contain one or more human skeletons...
🤣🤣🤔
Work of art made of aluminum for sale.
You all misspelled aluminium
My grandfather worked in a lead refinery back in the 1950s. His I.D. card was stamped steel, because if you got caught in an accident like this, that would be the only thing left of you.
Sobering, but logical
In the 80s I worked in a iron foundry, a transfer ladle 1/2 this size shorted out and dumped just a few feet from a guy, 60% of his body burned. Absolutely preventable, it had been acting up for 2 weeks
My grandson witnessed a death at an aluminum foundry. Even though he was a fearless bear of a man, this stressed him pretty bad. All he could say was "I didn't know a human could make a sound like that." Two weeks later an aneurysm exploded in his brain and he died too.
I watch this video and try to imagine what he had seen
@@davehaggerty3405 did you know what caused the aneurysm?
@@davehaggerty3405 sorry for your lost though
My anxiety increased massively everytime someone got close to it.
well you'd have to hit confirm if someone died
Same
Oh god, me too. Molten aluminum?! Yikes...
Same
1:18 Look at the 2 guys in the top left corner of the screen... Yeah!
When the guy walked in, my size perspective expectations quickly changed
Ikr? I was like "wow, that's a little bucket, it's probably bigger than I think it is." And then the grown man walks into frame 🤣 DEFINITELY bigger than the camera made it seem.
Same
Yeeeep
Wholeheartedly agree
Right?!
"But Professor Utonium accidentally added an extra ingredient to the concoction..... human error"
Chemical X!
This shit is way funnier than it should be
To err is human; but if you really want to f thing up, you also need a computer
CHEMICAL X
I’m dead
I worked in a steel fabrication mill for about three months when I graduated high school, pay was about $10 an hour (good money back in the day for a pile of goo like I was) Hated that job but I tried to stick with it so I wouldn't look like the pile of goo that I was. I was a light crane operator, picking up steel beams about ten to twenty feet long and feeding them into a punch press to stamp holes in them. Still can't believe they let me do that job with NO training. One day at lunch they were talking about a co worker who was just getting out of the hospital and going into prosthetic rehab and training. "Wait, what?" I asked, "prosthetic rehab - what's that?" "Oh, he had an accident where his leg was crushed completely and had to be amputated........" Everyone went silent and awkwardly coughing and clearing their throats and whispering and shushing. After lunch was over I asked my co worker about it and he reluctantly told me that he was the guy that worked my position before me. I quit that job with no notice at the end of that week on payday.
Lol same... about feeling like a like of goo... but at least my job is not dangerous like that.
This is why I stuck to selling bud
So you stayed a pile of goo?
@@Hammett175 This is Patrick from Spongebobs origin story.
When my grandfather was 16 he and his friend went to take a job at a local saw mill in the early 1940's during their summer break in high school. Good pay and they figured good gig for a summer. The hiring manager was asking them things like "are you sure you want this job?" while interviewing. The last part of the interview they took them out on the floor for a tour of the facility. My grandfather noticed that no one working on the floor had all their fingers and/or hands/arms. He and his buddy left and never took the job. A year later my grandfather lied about his age to join the Marines and fight in WW2. He'd do war but he wouldn't do this bullshit.
I worked in an aluminum die cast plant. Saw two furnaces blow up. One beside my machine. A lift operator left his lift between me and the furnace. The only thing that saved me. Saw molten aluminum pored in the floor several times. Almost had my foot it it once. Yes, it will melt concrete. Yep, I am a lucky guy.
Thank God for that Lift Operator
This kind of thing doesn't happen in the US. We have much higher safety standards.
@@wcswood Is was bars of Russian metal full of water.
I don't have a clue what the hell you just said man.
@@wcswooddon't make me laughing so hard 😂
I was shitting bricks when those employees walked by, and THEN dude on the Austin Powers cart drove up..
Classic
Austin powers cart hahaha😂😂😂
No joke i was horrified theyd be hit
Me too!!!!
Lol
Now, no matter how long he has operated, or how good that crane operator is, this will be his legacy.
Hopefully his legacy is that he is a complete moron.
Unfortunetly yes
He probably got fired
It depends...
It was China probably. No loss
I work at a steel mill, and have seen this happen multiple times. Never seen anyone get fired, usually just put in a different position or department. One guy did over a million dollars in damage and now he runs the saftey department.
D'OH !... WOOHOO ! !
"I quit."
I could say the same thing about the steel mill I work in.....your not buy chance in northern Kentucky are you?
How IS good old Homer Simpson?
That guy is "million dollar trained" and therefore too good to go to waste.
I worked in the Heavy Foundry at Sheffield Forgemasters for 40 years, we made castings with a finished weight of 350 tonne, with 7 ladles simultaneously pouring 650 tonnes of molten steel, I've seen moulds leak before which has resulted in molten steel all over the shop floor, but I've never seen a crane tip over a ladle. The way the driver was laying the legs down was an accident waiting to happen.
The bail is made to be laid over like that. The issue it he was traveling before the hook lowed clear of the bails. Simple rule of thumb for all crane operations is one movement at a time ie lift or lower to the height you need then travel. Anyone with a little experience can easily move the crane around in three dimensions but there are times when its just better to stick to doing things as simply as possible. I worked at what was the worlds largest Aluminium and one issue we had to deal with that most places dont is the magnetic field generated by the massive current flow on the pot lines (pots or cells as they are know is what the aluminium is smelted in). The magnetic field was strong enough to get your hook caught on the lift point. We used to have 3 ton forklifts tow each other around by just butting the counter weights up against each other.
How come u still alive?¿
It’s so hot even the CCTV camera went back to the 1940’s for a few seconds.
🤣🤣🤣
🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
Fucking genius😂🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂😭
im surprised it didn’t melt the damn camera. i was expecting the screen to go black.
That was just the GTA "wasted" cutscene effect playing
Safety Officer: What steps should one take in the event this happens in your workplace ?
Me: Long ones and fast ones ...
me: grow a pair of wings. and let them grow instantly.
Run to my car 🚗 and getting a new job 😂
🤣🤣🤣
And what debrief steps should we take after an event such as this safety officer: go outside lean against a sturdy wall look up to the sky and thank your lucky star that you're alive and smoke 5 cigarettes at the same time. Chain smoking them is not an approved debrief Move 😂😂.
What two thing should you do in the case of a medical emergency?
1) Run.
2) Hide.
The reason we're watching this on youtube and not liveleaks is because those guys weren't standing any closer
One of them died anyway
I think 1 person died
Wasnt live taken down
@@canthandlethislol too bad bestgore isnt up anymore
@@ohhkennny766 sad
Dad told me to never work in a factory like he did because it’s unsafe.He was right.
Warehouse work is unsafe too.
Think how much you'd feel like an ass to spill a gallon of paint on the floor at work, now imagine this
Well don't just stand there, get the mop out and clean it up!
i know someone who dumped a FIVE GALLON BUCKET OF GREEN PLASTIC DYE on herself - she had to leave work that day -and for 2 weeks her arms and parts of her face were green. they had to have an employee meeting to make everyone stop teasing her! LOL - this was more dangerous, for sure - but that girl at our plant takes the cake for looking/feeling like an ass.
Its subjective. Some people feel some amount of stress when talking to people while others feel same amount of stress when fighting for life.
So i guess he feels same as the guy who spills gallon of paint.
A boat load of hell juice this is.
Lol
"Thank god night shifts about to clock in. Aight see yall tomorrow."
That is just like a 15 minute to shift change accident
Yep, fuck up near shift change so it's someone else's problem. Then pretend it never happened the next day.
@@Natcam3 yep and i call people like that lazy do your job you get payed to do it
@Wrathof GOD boss says no OT. What am I supposed to do?
More like night shift fucking shit up at my work lol
My grandpa died in this kind of accident at work. In 1987, 50 tons of molten steel tipped over somehow and fell/splashed right on him and a few other workers. 4 people died that day. I never got to know him sadly, I heard he was a great man
Oh how terrible!
I am so very sorry for your loss
RIP... And respect for your grandpa, it's a hard but important job, you should be proud of him
Condolences.
Maybe he’s still alive and he only dipped because he got fired
@@sailemartini5902 Have some respect or don't comment at all
Anyone who had ever welded or handled molten metals like this knows what happens to a concrete floor when it gets this hot. The top layer explodes as the air pockets heat up. Much of what you see happening after the spill is the concrete exploding.
I worked at Bethlehem steel and at 300’ away you could feel the heat off that kettle when they poured it. Burning slag would fly in all directions, it was something to see. Ppl have no idea how dangerous and truly wild a place like that is.
I do. I'm 1500 miles away and tensed up just seeing how close those men get to that thing. I gotta stop watching these videos. I'm gonna have a heart attack. And I thought bakery ovens were hot, cereal ovens were hot, and I once was fire walking all drunk and stupid. Stepped in a hole and landed in the glowing hell below me on my side. Hopped out. I was burned to crisp from finger tip to shoulder, both arms. Facial hair singed, only time since high school I didn't sport a mustache, burned it off, but it grew back. Me no like molten metal, neither. You guys are nuts working around that stuff. Must pay real well?
@@trentstewart2558 OUCH MAN!😳
I’m glad you’re ok now, that’s brutal.
Those mills are all gone now. It’s a giant Amazon hub amongst other warehouses now which is depressing. My Grandfather worked there after he served in WWII for 40 years as did many that lived around Baltimore and it’s so sad to see it all gone. Now the bridge is gone after the ship took it down. There were 11 major chemical plants around that area too, only one remains. We outsourced everything to other countries…..
As soon as the people walked into frame my eyes got huge like “noooooooo, ruuuuuun!!” Hope no one got hurt here
I'm hurt.
They all died
@@jordanquill8079 really I was thinking that 😮
Did they really die?
@@tipsymcstagger623 I checked. The closest people in frame were walking away when it fell. If it was hot enough maybe they hurt their eyes and got a couple burns. Maybe.
"Ok, lower it a little more."
"Floor it?"
"No, lower it!"
"Floor it!"
"NO, LOWER IT! LOWER IT!"
"FLOOR IT!"
My wife told me to get the wax out of my ears! Arrgh
To be fair, normally the crane operator is not allowed to work if he's drunk, has a concussion, and his glasses have been replaced with a snake.
Reminds me of a very specific SpongeBob quote, "BACK IT UUUUUP."
I read this as the Paul Sr/Paulie Jr meme template 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dump it!
I've seen an accident like this first hand and its fucking terrifying seeing 2800° iron rushing at you with the consistency of water I'm forever thankful I ran track all through school
Seems like a floor consisting of a thick steel grate suspended over an empty space (or not) would give it someplace to go. Expensive, but no spilled liquids melting people.
@@paulkahler6373 exactly, or barriers or gutters to halt waves of molten metal from spreading around the plant... Would likely only need them in key areas too...
Its aluminium, i expect it to be around 800°C
@orwor i dont think so, they wer pretty far from ot so they would have noticed and ran
@orwor melted the soles off my boots and my pants weren't salvageable but other than that no
Your honor, my client would like to plead "oopsey daisy"
Lmao
I'd like the phone number of that lawyer please...
I’m saving this to my UA-cam favorites so that every time I have a shitty day, I can rewatch this and know that at least I didn’t melt the warehouse floor with molten lava.
And kill a fellow coworker...
I love bad days. They are good day for me
It's molten aluminum not lava, lava is molten volcanic rocks and I believe aluminum is far hotter because of its melting point, I may be wrong tho
@@vanquisher4700 i indeed believe you're wrong. I think you have some other metal in mind. But then again i didn't check. Also i would like to point out that lava is per definition molten (pointed at the original comment).
You don't melt the warehouse floor with molten aluminium. It's just a few hundred degrees hot. Also it's quite easy to remove afterwards
“I want that floor so clean it shines”
“You got it boss”
Lol 😆 🤣
Ain't no bacteria hes not wrong
@@pyrokine9538 How could he not be wrong... the guy LITERALLY Incinerated any bacteria with the heat of the devil's anus (X"D) *LMFAOO*
@@AlexLopez-vm7uq
Nah, some bacteria are archaic prokaryotes that they are immune to immense temperatures. Like thousands of °C.
The plan may have been FOILED it appears.🤪
That guy who just drove by before it spilled is so lucky he wasn’t a few seconds behind
I think he actually died. There is no way he can run that fast
@@Hide_and_Tweak Nah. He was furthest away from the spill
@@Hide_and_Tweak He was in a vehicle! And it was long gone. 🙄
he would have been a crispy critter.
@@deanvanluven6813 Yeah ,that's what i saw also. They had things they could have got out of the way and it didnt get to that corner instantly
They say you learn from your mistakes, the crane operator learned that he will never work in this field again.
oh...you'd be surprised...
or he will learn to lower the hooks after he sets the crucible down ... so they DONT tip the crucible ...
"Would you like fries with that?"
@@0623kaboom I feel like they should probably try learning that before they get put into the operating seat of the crane
@@0623kaboom One would think the company would have iron-clad (no pun intended) operating instructions and process steps laid out for a responsibility like this. Will never know the facts leading up to or the consequences though, will we?
You know its hot when everything explodes and you enter black and white mode (aka almost dying screen) and it suddenly becomes nighttime and the floor is sparkling and you don't know your name anymore
Yeah... but the forklift dude though, he drove by like seconds before
yeah too much vodka and weed
Kinda like a Monday.
the sparkling is probably moisture from inside the concrete itself flash evaporating and causing bubbles of steam to rise through the molten metal.
The glow from the spill was so bright, that the video went to black and white for a moment.
Good lord.
At least it didn't go to plaid.
@@tim2point0 That would be ludicrous
It wasn't as bright as it looks, the camera just whites out due to overexposure.
was looking for this comment!
@@scotcheggable Still really bright though. I've spilled a 4kg crucible of molten aluminum on concrete before. It is bright and terrifying. The shimmering you're seeing is any moisture (from humidity) trapped in the floor bring explosively turned into steam and throwing molten metal all over the place. Yeah the camera totally overcompensates on the white balance, but it's still just ridiculously bright.
As an H&S Engineer, I can identify at least a dozen of non-conformities. It’s always “I know this job, don’t tell me how to do it” in the beginning, but when the shait hits the fan, their big mouth shrinks to atomic size.
He was texting.
"Be home late."
"Never mind"
Lmao 😂, on the way home honey
Be home rest of the year
If he was smart he wouldn't of sent that msg because of the time stamp.
@@frankbeans5921
----- the joke
🤓 you
@@frankbeans5921 "wouldn't of"
That person who drove by seconds before this happened was probably counting their lucky stars after seeing this video.
They are probably the reason the crane operator was distracted and dumped the load. Crazy
He stopped his vehicle at the top left of the video and got out to talk to another worker. They were both there when it happened and I’m sure had to run for their lives. He totally should not been driving though there and parking to get out by the vehicle in this area. Even though the crane operator should not be distracted by anything, this might have been part of the distraction. It would be great to see the aftermath and how something like this is cleaned up.
Curious as to who is actually running the crane. Is it the guy who came and checked the cauldron and then walked off to the left? Or is it someone remotely we do not see on video. Not sure how you cannot have your eyeballs on that thing the whole time. I often run an overhead crane moving tons of sheet glass and crates of sheet glass at a time and you just never take your eyes off of it. At least not while it is moving and you know when it is moving. Boggles my mind. But others have been killed doing what I do and other jobs like it. It takes extreme carelessness but it has been done.
Don't think he needed to watch this video to see what happened. He was right there lol
@@punknhead23 He shouldn't be the reason, because the operator wasn't near the release point when the cart rolled through.
Did anyone else not notice the scale of this until the guy walked up?😅
by looking at the floor space and size of the metal pillars/equipment and stuff you would figure that pot is half the size of an M1-abrams tank, which it is
@@FieldBoy111 i couldn't lol
@@LUCSchnl ive been in a lot of factories though
the scrap marks on the floor and the loader bucket on stand by tells me this is not the first this has happened
Absolutely, without a frame of reference you can't easily judge the scale. That is one big container.
That is absolutely terrifying and a miracle nobody was injured. I cant imagine working that night and having something like that happen.
UA-cam really recommended this to me an hour before I go to work at an aluminum foundry
Yup, never again!
Maybe its a sign to find another job?
Babysitting small cousins yesterday... They were playing "the floor is lava!" not six hours ago.
A good reminder that your job is dangerous. Don't get complacent, stay safe bud.
Complacency Kills! It’s a reminder. Stay safe, internet friend!
Ever since little Billy spilled his apple juice when he was a kid, he knew he was destined to spill great things
lmao
Way to go, Billy!
Billy will have to answer to HR for this. At least he get a chance to score with Stacy.
Hahaha
GODDAMNIT BILLY NOT AGAIN
Before the accident, when I saw all of those people casually just walking around, my anxiety was at level 200.
Me too
Peasants are easily replaceable
Me too, if it looked like it was going to tip on them, I couldn't have watched.
@@BoleDaPole More people have died in Amazon warehouses of heart attacks brought on by dehydration than were killed by Jeffrey Dahmer
The mistake Jeffrey Dahmer made was not to kill in the pursuit of profit...
Yeeeeeah. Just going through my head, 'please don't turn into a horror flick'.
The two seconds that the company needed him most, he wasn't paying attention. Complacency is a quality killer.
It's terrifying how fast accidents happen in real life. There's no drama, it's just instant death if you're in the wrong place
well you might want to hope its instnt death in some of these cases
The drama comes after
I can imagine the death is not so instant and quite dramatic when you're coated in molten metal
@@SoakieCatNah you would be dead instantly. That level of heat would flash fry your brain. You would fucking explode as all the water in your body basically converts to steam instantly.
Yeah if you walking around under a huge caldron of molten metal,
Interviewer “are you responsible?”
Me...”yeah, at my last job they said every time something bad happened I was responsible.”
Lol
😂😂 okay
Lmfao 😂😂😂😂😂
Wow this was a joke I read on a Bazooka Joe bubble gum wrapper 30+ years ago that I've used quite a few times and never heard again until now...
😄😂🤣😅😭😆🤡
Its always impressive seeing how dark the cameras get when trying to adjust for stuff like this, it must have been absolutely blinding to look at
A lot of it's probably infrared light that the camera didn't filter out, it wouldn't look quite that bright in person
@@Scribblersys p
Molten aluminum does not glow. I've seen enough for a lifetime.
@@BlindSquirrel666 That appears to be lead. But with lead & aluminum being non ferrous metals more than likely its the infrared of the camera making it appear that way.
I think one of the other things is the possibility that the material on the floor may also be causing it as it may handle small spills but not a whole container from spilling and possibly metal dust and could be igniting causing this
I was waiting for the Terminator's hand to come out of the molten metal
🔥👍🔥
The guy top left is literally pointing as it as it starts to tip. It's at that point in my nightmares I normally realise my legs suddenly don't work and I can't move or run.
Totally. This happens frequently in my dreams. The need to run fast or even take off flying but I can't run fast at all because my legs are like cement blocks
This comment made me laugh 🤦🏿♂️
I run in super slo mo. Wtf brain.
@@Enchanted3DPrints me to, I attribute it to watching too many Baywatch episodes......
I hope they were ok
"Umm Bob, the Boss wants to see you in his office"
🤣🤣🤣
“Umm Bob , you mind peeing in this cup “
You mean the office that used to be above the factory floor?
Bob probably kept his job. Imagine hiring some random pussy off the street and training him to do this, good luck with that. That's an intense job. He obviously made a huge mistake, but considering the position he's in, he probably learned from it and would do everything to prevent that from happening again. From management in a production metal shop, shit fucking happens, and it's hard to find guys to replace an old timer. Dudes probably done this 1,000 times but got complacent and continued moving backwards when he should have paused and moved a little forward to complete the lift safely. Sure he fucked up, but I doubt they could replace him in an instant. The working man is hard to come by these days
@@jeffd4056 he's probably suspended without pay. And endured the ass chewing of a lifetime from his higher ups
if you ever mess up during work, just remember at least you didn’t knock over a barrel of lava
Underrated👍
I wonder if the guy who actually knocked over the barrel of lava will ever watch this video.
It's not lava.
@@andrewwhitley2361No shit Sherlock. Do you actually lack so much self-awareness that you actually think that statement was useful?
Lava is from rocks.
I once worked in a foundry. Something similar but much smaller happened. That was the only time in my life I found myself running before I had a thought about it!
They should have known this was gonna happen after he spent $30 trying to get the teddy bear out the toy machine
This comment is underrated
@@Comanchee0689 I don't know whether or not I can add to that.
666th like
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@@iglesianifuhuaw4228 777th like!
Boss: Why this happened?
Mechanic: It was electrical problem.
Electrician: it was mechanical problem.
Operator: It was electromechanical problem.
LOL as an industrial electrician that statement is so true.
Failure code...SCADA
Boss: You're both fired.
Don't forget management: a big fucking problem
No no, that's an electrical problem. There is a wire within 100'.
We just installed some new aluminum flooring. It was a last minute decision.
Now that’s funny! I needed that
Worker motivation is at an all time high.
Aluminium flooring sounds pretty cool tbh
Aluminum? You must be from USA
Nice and shiny
Extreme example of: Always remember to unhook the crane.
(sees one person walk into frame)
Oh _no_
(sees him touch the bucket)
Oh _NO_
(he walks away)
Okay phew
(two people and an electric vehicle are now in frame)
*_OH NO_*
same
Panik. Kalm. PANIK...
*Kool-Aid man bursts through wall*
"OH YEEEEAAHH!!"
He was seeing if it was hot.
Yes, Redditer, everyone knows you really love Hooman.
I had a relative that was killed in an industrial accident involving a crane at an aluminum smelter. He left behind behind a wife and two young children. Very dangerous places. This video made me think of him.
I’m sorry for your loss. What a horrifying way to go. When the cauldron thingy tipped over the only thing going through my head was did anyone get hurt?
I am so sorry. My husband works at a foundry. Not as dangerous but I worry about him every day.
@@raerichard9391 same same
@Garbage Guy yeah
I'm so sorry for your loss
Just when you think your day can't get any worse... imagine how this guy feels
Fired?
@@Lisandro8327 I think both him and the dude who was supposed to detach it from the crane are probably fired
Definitely fired
He’s probably at the employment office now..
@@Lisandro8327 in both ways cuz this lava just ignited everything around
Everybody gangsta until the floor really IS lava.
Imagine just being next to this thing then a “liveLeak” logo appears above your head
Oh god
Mama mia
Lmao
Fug
EXACTLY!!!!!!
LMFAO
I work as a fabricator welder and in our factory we often have to move large steel pieces about, anything from a few hundred kilograms up to 5 metric tons.
I always look back at the crane after i've unhooked something because i'm terrified of this happening.
This level of carelessness is completely unforgivable and he just didn't do his due diligence at all.
My sentiments exactly. Should see a firing squad for this.
@Suicide Commando 88 I thought so. Thanks for the validation. 🙂
@Commander Don Wrong. It was probably a wiring issue.
@@-108- Validation of what? That yer a windowlicker that should be on meds?
@@dangerousdays2052 A "wiring issue" that fixed itself right after spilling?
"Spilled content from the inside of a hot pocket microwaved for THREE minutes."
Let’s not do anything rash now
They either be freezing or be straight up lava. No in between
@@ethanfuego9648 never in between.
@@mattgranger1221 ong
Well, you don't microwave them for three minutes lol
The aluminum was so hot, it opened a dimension shift to the shadow realm
I was expecting a puddle of glowing liquid, not an instant portal into hell.
Edit: Wow. Didn't expect this comment to get so much attention. If only my actual content was so entertaining 😂
For real, this looks like special effects from out of a movie.
OMG this is the best comment 😭😭😭
I think the floor is actually boiling once the lava hits it
Well, a puddle of lava _is_ effectively a portal to hell for a little while.
Sounds like my wedding night
When your pocket gets hung on a kitchen cabinet as you’re walking away with a hot cup of coffee.
😂🤣😂🤣
This is the realest comment I've read so far
The operator could have tried to stay awake a little harder.
🤣🙈yes, Happened less than 24 hours ago
Then you cuss the maker of your cargos. Solves everything.
Relatable af. Ever caught your headphones on a door handle while carrying coffee?
Definitely not on the same scale lol
Almost!
Why are you carrying coffee and wearing wired headphones? Bluetooth man, Bluetooth...
Not at the same level of a door handle.
put the headphone cable under your shirt wtf
I saw similar accidents in real life. Always put %100 attention what you do.
As a retired metal worker, this here is pure nightmares. Like a furnace explosion, a press double load (common), or a lathe bite, this is the stuff that keeps you up at night.
Do you mind explaining a double load? I use a hydraulic press here and there and have never heard of that.
@@goyslop4289 i could imagine something like in an automated process when a pressed part doesn´t clear the mold and is stuck on top, the next raw piece gets loaded, press comes down and spatters hot metal all around at high speeds...but just guessing...op has to clear that one up for you
Just reading Lathe Bite gave me the cold sweats 😂 I couldn’t even imagine the stress this work causes
@@itswilliee this one knows! 😆😂
Keep safe guys. You all who know, know too well. You all who don't, remember if you ever work in industry, all that safety crap they put you through is for a reason. In the big picture, what happened here could've been even worse. Mistakes happen. Look out for one another.
Yep. I'm also a metal worker, mostly welding constructions, but also everything else that has to be done, and I've seen some bad stuff happening in all my years at work. Thank god, no deadly accidents so far, but often times there was big luck involved that nobody got seriously injured.
I worked at US Steel hot rolled plate mill, nothing like having 40,000 pounds of red hot steel rolling by. The scale of machinery was immense, seeing steel ingots being cooked in a blast furnace when the furnace doors would open it was like looking into the gates of hell.
What do you mean by 40,000?
@@ignitablevirus7644 oops, my bad, 40,000 pounds
@@stevenbaer9061 that's insane. I can't even begin to imagine the amount of hazards .
@@ignitablevirus7644 It was pretty wild and dangerous. It was 1978 and the worst most dangerous job I had was hitting the right hand corner of red hot steel with a sledge hammer to imprint an unique number on the plate of steel, if I slipped and feel onto the steel I would have literally been toast, no protection, no nothing for safety equipment. When I got home my sister thought I was sun burned from sitting on the beach as my face was beet red.
Really? Which one?
"yes....my last job......i handled opening the portal to the nether world"
Right onto lava
Hi, I'm from the Ordo Malleus. You are hired.
Did ya get frequent die-er miles? 🤣
@@lordinquisitorstefanauster846 austere wow a spartan thats rare hmm
I’ve witnessed this same thing at an American Steel plant in Alabama. You could see the heat wave moving across the floor. So very dangerous!
And it blinds the camera sensor like in real life this would be so bright
Interviewer: "so whats your speciality? "
Applicant: "I make floors shiney....real shiney"
ye
Like the SpongeBob episode where everything is chrome in the future
floor would be opposite of shiny, it's gonna be covered in aluminum oxide lol
The word is shiny, genius.
That would be concrete exploding
It’s like the inside of a McDonalds apple pie.
Glad I never stuck my dick inside of one
What a burn!
Or a hot pocket.
Could go your way, could go mine
Here, in France, we don't have McDonald's Apple Pie since the 90s... :(
At first I thought it wouldn't be that bad
But then a person entered the frame and I realized how wrong my scale perception was
Yeah, I was thinking it was maybe a 10L pot like a church dinner size 🤣 the human was one thing ...then the truck rolled in 🙀🙀🙀
Why has this been in my recommendations for the past week.
Karma?
@@skippy6086 what?😂
@@saumyamehta7125 😋
I guess spilling my coffee on paperwork this morning wasn’t so bad
It was horrific for all those microorganisms
@@J.J.J.J.J.J.J There's was a joke on Leave it to Beaver like that. He flooded the water in the tub, and said something like, "All those poor bugs that may have drowned."
This should be the top comment on this video, far and away.
@@Tony_Cardoza haha, no doubt.
I had a similar predicament; I ran over my kid with my car this morning but then I remembered how many kids die in hazardous working conditions so I brushed it off.
As they say, no point crying over spilled molten aluminium
You beat me by one day, word for word! Great minds think alike!
Do you know what caused this and what was the aftermath?
@@shhmule The crane started moving sideways before the hook was completely detached.
@@shhmule Operator texting. Job opening
The crane operator was simply an Alien 3 and Terminator 2 fan.
I'm surprised people were allowed on the shop floor during these operations.
Man, they run whole pots of molten material on fork trucks thru these foundries with folks everywhere. One drop of water and everyone in a 15-foot radius is toast.
It's probably China
@@jmakc3541 I used to work in a die casting facility just like that. Very dangerous work.
@@GeorgeAusters Lol You a major idiot, literally at the beginning of video there's a stop sign on the top of video. This is in merica
@@GeorgeAusters naw. It's america. You can tell by the slow pace of the workers
I come back and watch this every so often to give myself a bit of perspective at those times when I feel like I'm having "a bad day at work".
Am I the only one that thought it was a small bucket until people started walking around?
Uh, yes. Yes u are. 🧐
No
I thought it was a bucket of molten metal being lowered safely onto a table... Wait, why is that guy so small... Oh.
Nope lol
SubUwU
“Little Timmy really wanted to play the floor is lava, but they refused.
Little Timmy made sure they’ll accept.”
"And Timmy fucking died."
Little Timmy scary
@@DerpyPenguin4747 lol, and everything else too
Timmmyyyyyyyy
Why timmy? What about billy?
The janitor comes in next day and is like "Oh come on you guys, first the toilets now this"
😐 hahaha so funny 😐
😅😅😅
Omg perfect
@@eaxu Taco Bell.
Lol this comment wins
-seeing the pot on the table,
-sees people entering the area,
-brain; "nononononONONONONONONONO!!!"
Having worked in a foundry, this should never happen, but it isn't surprising that it did. The mentality of the workers and management I experienced in the early 70's was cavalier at best. The equipment was was ancient and poorly maintained. The workers seemed to have the IQ of a gnat and cared nothing about the equipment or themselves. I, along with the supervisor, witnessed a worker ram a brand new forklift with one of the old ratty ones, defacing the finish and destroying one of the flashers on the new unit because "It didn't fit in." to raucous laughter by all, including the supervisor. I saw a sheetmetal flume constructed from the cupolo to the city sewer to divert the burning slag that couldn't go to the quench tank because the bucket lift was broken down. The EPA/OSHA officer pitched a fit and it was torn down, but as soon as he was out of sight it was built back. Hopefully, things have changed in the industry, but if this video is any indication, it doesn't appear it has or at least not enough.
Makes you wonder how bad it was before OSHA and any form of regulations committee was set up.
Not having worked in a foundry, yeah....this should never happen. I’m fairly certain that “spill giant vat of molten metal” is not part of the standard operating procedure. But then again, I haven’t worked in a foundry so take what I said with a grain of salt.
It looks like they tried to spill it...why did the crane operator pull it sideways instead of up
It hasn’t changed at least at the company I work for. The plant was built in the 50’s and very few changes have been made over the years. We still tap the furnaces by hand with 30 ft long x 1/2” solid steel bar. FeSi metal coming out of the furnace about 2800 Fahrenheit. Very dirty and hot working atmosphere at times.
The extension on our scissor lift is(was) held by four pins that pull out and hang off of the lift so they don't get lost. Technicians have cut them off 17 times.
With each person that came on screen, my anxiety went📈📈📈
As someone with a severe anxiety disorder, this scared the shit out of me
I can agree with this %100
@@PrismaticCrafter I seriously hope so 🤞😭
@Ben Woodcock uhhhh those two guys in the top left corner say otherwise
Lol 100%%%
"JERRY THE FLOOR IS LAVA"
"What are you in kindergarten?"
"NO DAMMIT THE FLOOR IS LAVA"
(Golf clap)
@@beejcarson women's basketball clap lol
Jajaja
If lava only actually contained aluminum you could collect it to turn it in for recycling and collect cash!
Trust me, I've seen something like this with Iron, but only half the volume: NOBODY would need to be informed about the lava floor. That is something everybody realises lightning fast.
Is it just me or do y'all get anxious as hell when those two dudes walk in?
As soon as I saw people in view I got nervous for them.
I was expecting something out of a three stooges short when the guy walked behind the cauldron.
The guy on the cart that went by is probably thanking his lucky rabbits foot that he was not there when it fell or what’s left of this might have ended up as a statue !! 😮
I hope they're not blind now
I wonder if the spill caught up to them.
That operator is gonna have a hard time finding a lava cauldron swinging job again.
Never let this guy play any crane games...or maybe do.
That whole process need to be updated ..
Yup, pretty niche and he sucks at it. That being said I hope he is okay
Crane operator was in a hurry, plain and simple. As a retired high voltage lineman, my elders taught me to take my time and work smart, you'll get more done than the guy who runs around like a brace and bit. And go home at night alive. Words I'll never forget and got me to retirement.
I don't understand what happened though, did the crane operator not see that it was still caught?
Did he not feel some resistance? How far from the crane was he?
@@tdeo2141 The crane operator had to be in sight of the hook and operation. Regardless , we always would have a man watching and directing the operator from the ground point of view. The operator was above, so was unable to get a good view if the hook had dropped far enough to move to the side, which he did in way to fast of a manner. One operation at a time. What happens is you can get into a rhythm and complacent, Haste makes waste, hopefully those two guys on the left didn't get splattered. Molten metal burns deep into flesh, I know.
@@jamescarpenter8125 I see, so he was above… well that explains a lot. I went back to right before the burning metal spilled, I honestly don’t know if those two workers made it. They were maybe 25 meters away? I don’t know how far the splatter would go. What an awful - and 100% preventable - accident!
@@jamescarpenter8125 I had a small weld bead drop into my boot. Took months for the burn to heal.
Ive never heard the brace and bit reference before....i think i understand it - dont work like a chicken with its head cut off - i suppose could be used instead; but im just not seeing the brace and bit reference. Where are braces and bits fastened really quickly? What the hell is a bit? Is that a nail or screw? Electric screw drivers and fasteners? Is that the reference?
Back in the 80's I worked in an iron foundry for engine blocks. We had two cranes lifting ladles. One was a little dodgy and when you got a newby operator and he jolted the thing the crap would spill out over the top. The problems start once the molten metal hits the cold concrete floor. It jumps and goes everywhere. If when doing the slag off on the floor some of it reached you then it was time to do the dance, as in little burning balls finding their way into the top of your fireproof overalls and travelling downward, hopefully not ending up in the tops of your boots.
At first I was like “oh good no one is on the floor while it’s moving” then as every person entered frame “oh god oh god” then as they all walked away “you don’t know how lucky you are sir”
I believe they do
A 51 yo employee sadly won the wrong lottery though 😟 RIP
And all because of a tiny slip-up from the crane operator, imagine that!
@@raffaeledivora9517 Source?
Did the 2 guys in the upper left corner make it out? I could not believe how fast the aluminum poured....expected it to be a bit thicker and slower. They probably did not miss the heat or vapor, though, unfortunately.
@@danealey4084 Any metal is pretty slippery when it's hot enough. This is something I feel like most movies get really wrong.
When I was traveling doing electrical work. We built a plant like this in Kentucky that smelted for brake rotors for VW. The bucket is literally 15ft tall and huge. The first test they did,the crane company that installed it somehow reversed all settings so when it go forward it went down. And it's all computerized. It dumped (raw metal,not smelted) but if it were it would have killed all of us.
At least they test their products lol
My dad was an electrical worker. The 2 jobs he absolutely refused was power plants and chemical plants. I'd have to add anything with molten metal to that list after hearing that and watching this video
i like chemistry 😂
These people are paid by undercover to deliberately sabatog industries and are killing people too. And the government refuses to stop them. I wonder if it's them who are doing it...
all of that because someone programmed a shitty code on his greasy keyboard
The reverse Wizard of Oz effect was a nice touch. So violent the whole shop returned to 1939
I knew it looked eerily familiar
looks like an atomic bomb went off😳
The man driving that little cart was seconds from a horrifically painful death
"Men, we've trained for this our whole lives."
Idk dude I don't think jumping on couch cushions is gonna be too helpful this time...
Remember it’s for real this time
Gold
You can’t say men any more lol 😂
That line Just reminds me of Simpsons at the peanut factory when Stompy the elephant rampages through lol
You know its hot when the floor starts to boil
1800degree
Water and CO2 from the disintegration of concrete.
Yeah and I'm preeeeeeerty that floor is rated for VERY hot.
What floor🤣
Rip MF DOOM