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The Skull Crackers : Inside History's Most Brutal Job

Every shift, an overhead crane moved 200 tons of liquid steel at 3,000°F above the heads of the men working below. If the shell cracked, if the nozzle blew, if the crane operator misjudged his clearance by six inches, there was nothing between those men and a quarter-million pounds of liquid metal. This is the story of the ladle crew — the men who caught it, moved it, and poured it by hand in the mills of Pittsburgh, Homestead, and Gary. The stopper man standing feet from the open nozzle stream. The skull crackers breaking solidified steel out of a vessel that had been at 3,000 degrees an hour before. The crane operator forty feet up, moving a load he couldn't see directly beneath. Their names are not in the production records. They are in the accident statistics. #SteelHistory #Pittsburgh #IndustrialRevolution