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.
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.
@@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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I work at a gas station and I had to watch training and safety videos. One was about static electricity and how it causes fires at the pumps. It showed surveillance footage of a lady who starts pumping gas, then opens her door and takes off her sweater and throws it in. Then goes to take the gas handle out and immediately sets herself on fire. That looks like nothing compared to this.
The temperatures aren't comparable. Gasoline has a low flash plant. The reason that image gets dark even though everything is on fire is because it's so much energy coming off of it it's blinding the camera. It doesn't seem like it's melting it because it's still functioning just fine but it's damaging the sensor. If they had pour it on a person they would basically die instantly because the solids and liquids that make up their body would boil, and the steam combined with the gas in their body, because it's being compressed by itself and by the material, they would explode.
Hello fellow pump jockey! Can confirm, gas station employees have to watch quite a few training videos (pretty much my first 2 paid days were videos and sweeping) about spill containment, fire prevention, and emergency response procedures all having to do with spills and fires. Heres the thing with no cell phones, folks: reentering the plastic and pleather interior of your car can build up a static charge in you via your cloths. Hell, wind can build up a static charge on you, because of your cloths. Thanks to your rubber shoes, when you step back out of the car you're not grounding yourself. If you then reach for the nozzle, which is venting aerosolized and evaporated vapors in the tank as it fills with liquid fuel, you ground out to the nozzle handle which is grounded to the pump island and your car. Spark plus flammable vapors equals fwoomph. Ouch town population: you. The ONLY solution is to ban clothing and shoes at the pump....... Nah Im joking. Having worked at a few stations and seeing the kinds of people that come in......no thank you. Seriously though, before putting your hand anywhere near the nozzle in your car touch either the bare metal of the pump pedestal, or your cars body for a second (you'll discharge through paint, just give it a second, Bare metal is instant) and youll be fine. I always do, no one ever notices....and that scares me some. But thats all you have to do to stay safe. Ground yourself before touching the fire water dispenser. Side note: my toxic trait is I expect people to have basic common sense then get mad when they dont. If common sense were common everyone would have it.
@@vortessence8607 You're crazy. CRAZY SAFE!!! Its always a good idea to make sure the protective elastomer covering is intact before inserting into the ole girls receiver port. Once in, it should stay pretty well on its own, though its not unheard of for units with a few miles and years on em to have trouble staying engaged through the whole procedure. Thats just called gettin old. But keep at it, and youll pump it all the way home, no problem. Now, as for gas station fuel dispensers.....
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
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.
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 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 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.
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!
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 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 😂
I drove cranes in Smelters and foundries for 25 years. Basic rule of thumb is to move only in one direction at a time, go up or down dont travel until youve reached the desired/safe height to safely continue. You want to long travel dont cross travel or go up or down. Keep it simple. Sure experienced drivers can move in 3 dimensions easily but knowing when to keep it simple is far more valuable than a guy who thinks he can drive lights out all day every day. Another hazard in an Aluminium smelter most people are completely unaware of is that pot rooms (the building where aluminium is smelted) can have a massive magnetic field in them due to the current that flows through the bus work which supplies electricity to the pots/cells. You can have a crane hooked to something 30 ft from the nearest pot/cell and the hook will get stuck to the lift point. It takes some clever manipulation to get it loose without assistance. That being said, after watching this video I dont believe the magnetic field played a part in this incident. An example of the strength of magnetic field is, if we had a 3 ton forklift break down in an difficult spot we would get another 3 ton fork and but its counter weight against the counter weight of the broke down fork and the magnetism would allow you to tow it out. If you stalled a fork you wouldnt be able to start it back up because the magnetic field would jam the solenoid on the starter motor.
Oh crap. That was shocking. I worked in a cast iron foundry once. I poured the metal. It was great that the crane operator I worked with was so very good at it.
@@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?
@@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.
Small electrical current through the hook of the crane and through that pot with a kept the crane from being able to go out so far while it was still attached. Of course that small electrical current would have had been relayed to a sensor, but the sensor would have realized that the hook was still attached to the bucket and not allowed to crane to go far enough as to pull the bucket over. 😅
I’m saving this to my RU-vid 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).
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.
@@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.
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
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
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...
One of my relatives used to work at a factory that had huge smelters that had metal bridges over them for the workers to walk across. One of his coworkers fell off the bridge and was basically instantly smelted.
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.
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
Scratch nuts, hold descend button for six seconds, slam trolley lever to left; done it every day for 30 years, always worked before. Equipment failure for sure.
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
(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_*
@@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
@@mcflyingfury Them laughable thing about this comment ist that every socialist/communist has extremely less afety measures as the outpiut and production of socializm is so extremely low that there is far less money to invest in safety. I worked for a company in the 80th that made heat exchangers. We also sold them to russia. One came back and it was full of branches, leafes and dirt. One worker who flew on site to see it prior to return said it was used on a lage that ussr, I give a shit and have no money to do better communism just diverted oil spill into it just like they thoufghht is was a good, communist idea to save money and directly cool a reactor by diverting water from a river directly in the core and then back into the water again into a sea, creating the most radioacive place on eart, so communism it.. If you stood on the back then for an hour, you'd be dead of radioactivity. Communism, baby. Another company I worked for bought the biggest company of it's branch in the GDR after the fall of the iron curtain. We invested 20M DM into it, as the tools and devices theyhhad where socialist rubbish from stone age. So they got the most modern stuff, far better than what we had. The gdr facility had 3600 Workers before. We just kept 150. That 150 had 4 times the output than what the 3600 did before. If you give powert to the workers and no pressure, you create the laziest people that can be and your output is HORRIBLE. But still, the output was far less that what the westworkers did with worse machines. So we sent a shift of westworkers there and they managed to produce 4 times more than the east socialismized workers. 40 years of teaching that working harder doies not pay off is hard to get rid off. If you give the llaziest people the same money as the hardest working, you soon end up with all of them are trying to be the laziest human possible. And after 40 years, that is hard to change we learned. The workers that went there said that that back in the day, you could just go to that company and say: "I want to work here", and you got employed, if there was work to do or not. People went shopping in their shift for 2h, nobody cared. Socialism , baby.. And that is why all socialist societies go bankrupt despite living conditions extremely poor and having to buy a car for your child after birth so it's delivered when they are 18. Socialism is not compatible with human psychology. No pressure to do something: get the laziest self you can possibly be. Abd that is why output is so EXTREMELY and there is no innovation in communist/socialist societies. And because of that, there is no money for safety. So the working conditions and safety standards where absolutely shit compared to the western facilitie's. The GDR had a car factore that produced the shittiest car imaginable. The "Trabbi" was designen in the 60th and the only improvements to 1990 where a tank gauge and a better display. It was laughably shit. But as this was -typical for socialism that doesn't achive annything- the only car abvailable it was bought. But as the workers where wsocialist, if you bought one, you had to wait 13 years to get it. Socializm, bably, which is basically lazyalizm in reality. And unsafe working space as hellizm.
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
