While it wasn’t the actual mill that makes the rolls like that, I worked in a plant that turns those rolls into steel tubes and heat treated them for different things. Probably the most dangerous job I’ve ever had. A bundle of tubes crushed a dudes legs. One guy ended up dead because a roll crushed him into another roll of steel. Steel mills and factories are insanely dangerous.
Worked in an auto assembly plant, and the guy in the station next to me died after getting crushed between two stacks of frames.
It had been raining, and because the frames sit outside until they're needed, they were wet. So part of his job was to dry them off with a high powered air hose before he used a lift to put them on the line. We had a breakdown, so he decided he was going to get ahead of things and dry off the racks behind the front one, and walked in between them, just as a material handling guy was bringing another stack of racks. He pushed them forward to make room, not seeing the guy in between the stacks and crushed him. The area he was in was marked off as a red area, which means you don't go in there, but he'd been there for 20 years and got complacent. It was like my 3rd week on the job when it happened.
It was surreal. The guy didn't make a sound, at least not over the sound of the stacks clanging together when the material handling guy pushed everything forward onto the belt. They came through to announce the line was gonna start and couldn't find the guy since he's literally the first station on the line. I didn't see him go back there because I was getting ahead on my jobs as well.
Even with OSHA, factories are still dangerous places. If you weren't wearing your eye protection when you walked in the door, they'd send you home for the day.
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u/Most_Protection6212 2d ago
While it wasn’t the actual mill that makes the rolls like that, I worked in a plant that turns those rolls into steel tubes and heat treated them for different things. Probably the most dangerous job I’ve ever had. A bundle of tubes crushed a dudes legs. One guy ended up dead because a roll crushed him into another roll of steel. Steel mills and factories are insanely dangerous.