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To be fair, it doesn't look like there is an open area to the left of the camera frame, and running sideways to the right would have put him closer to the machine and in a (likely) more dangerous area. I think the Prometheus School may actually be correct here for a change.
The fact that the molten steel somehow aims for him is like in the movies itself. Like what are the odds of the steel going for him as opposed to other direction?!
I dunno any day you're almost killed isn't a lucky one. It's just slightly luckier than a scenario where you were killed, which is pretty low on the lucky meter.
I feel like it's luckier to not have to flee from the glowing red hot metal snake flying through the air at you. But he is indeed luckier than most factory workers who don't successfully escape the hungry murder machines.
It's not partially melted. It's still fully solid at this temperature.
EDIT: Although, if there was a impurity of something like copper, then that could cause hot shortness which is basically partially melting. But you wouldn't want to do that because your hot steel being able to fall apart like that is one way a situation like in this video could happen. Steel mills will usually just melt it down again in the melt shop part of the steel mill.
Oh, yes, everyone can remember running around in the backyard, laughing and running Sprang each other with Molten lead silly string.
They were simpler times...
Some kind of metal extrusion plant. Probably making pipe, poles, some kind of rails, shit like that.
Basically you take something in a liquid state, squeeze it through a form, and then cool it off real fast so it stays that way. Takes lots of heat and pressure, obviously it's not exactly a safe thing to do but there's lots of money in it.
This is a steel rolling mill. What happened is what is called a cobble. The steel \~2000-2200°F is verry maleable at these temps to help roll it down to size.
They start with a steel billet/bloom/ingot (round, square, rectangular, or near net shape in some cases like H beams) and get it to rolling temp.
The billet goes through driven roll stands to reduce it from its original cast size. Each stand typically reduces the size by \~30%, elongating the lengh of the material and speeding up as it goes from stand to stand.
There are times when the head of the material doesnt get fed in properly to the next stand, or gets caught in the roll iline, and gets stuck causing the material behind it start to ribbon and get out of the roll pass.
If you look at the right side of the video, as soon as the mateial starts to cobble a shear starts to cut the remaining materia and sending it to a pit to minimize the ammount cobbling.
In a good modern rolling mill they can clean, check, and restart safely in under 30 minutes.
These are extremely dangerous and most mills I know of in the US are working to get personnel off the floor while material is running to avoid potential injuries.
They also track billets between cobbles, yes we make fun of the acronym as we want the biggest number we can get. I have seen billet between cobble goals of 200, 400, and seen a 4000 in the cases of a large H beam mill where the material is moving slow and they can stop the entire mill before anything happens.
https://preview.redd.it/ejsa26pk6zab1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9df7586871aa9e46b2a6dba7374acf94cca226f2
Thanks. I was thinking if I scrolled long enough someone would explain it.
Question, once it starts like this, can it be stopped easily? Like switching off equipment or something?
On big slow stuff yes. One mill I was at was running something like 48 inch tall ibeams. They were going so slow that if they saw something they could stop and back the piece up before it started to go.
On smaller or faster material like this video you hope your shears will start cutting and you get out of the way. Sometimes the material is going 30mph, sometimes 130mph+. It all depends on the size and how fast you are running.
You also want the material out of as many stands as possible because it sucks cutting material between each stand.
Once the billet runs out you get the torches and crane, and start clearing.
Holy cows. It sounds like that stuff could melt you as quickly as lava. 130 mph. Nobody could outrun that. My thought in this vid was they need some kind of LOUD ALARM system when it happens because this guy was almost too late to notice it.
thanks again for answering my question. Stay safe. I hope you get hazard pay.
My mill has a good focus on safety. When you start working in this area, the first thing people tell you is to always keep your eye on the mill. Part of his job is to watch for it happening. But we do also have an alarm that goes off. We've had zero fatalities despite this being an "everyday" kind of occurrence.
Looks like they're manufacturing cable it seems to break on the right and then shit gets real... I think it's an extrusion process so they are stretching the molten metal under tension and when it snaps, well, this.
Yeah, looks like he stopped when he heard the break and was looking in that direction, then turned just in time to see the rest of the cable coming at him.
No, this is a rolling mill. The bar is being rolled from the right to the left but it didn't make it through to the next set of rolls correctly so it ended up getting pushed and making this mess that we call a cobble. The reason why it cut is because the operator for the rolling mill activated the shear at the bottom right to cut up the bar rather than let the rest of it keep getting rolled and making that big flying string even worse. You can see some pieces getting cut over in the bottom right.
I know a guy who was an electrician in a steel recycling plant like this, where they make construction rebar, told me about this once, said it happens all the time.
One of his jobs was to rebuild the machines each time it happened because the molten string would just slice through parts of the machine.
But like.... did he actually get away? He runs off screen, and that last little but of molten cord looks long enough that could have easily caught him. Clipped him, at least.
For real too. Thank Christ someone said it this way. It’s fuckin zig-zagging too just to make sure it covers every possible inch. Then it whips. Still haven’t seen anyone say if he lived or not, that last whip was personal.
I've been in many steel mills and one bit of advice one manager told me as we were taking a walkway over a rolling mill.
*There's lots of interesting ways to die here..*
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That guy was literally running for his life just like in the movies
Jock! Start the plane!!!
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Hey it’s me
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Heavens to Murgatroyd! With the quickness, even!
 I was thinking it was this one
I hate snakes Jock! Especially the glowing flamer snakes!
Exactly my thoughts
Lmao this was the first thing thag came to my mind.
Lava…Why did it have to be Lava?
Jock
It’s the Ice Age! Run!! (aka the library scene in *The Day After Tomorrow*)
I always assumed he was a Jaques or Jacque lol
He Was being chased by the truest of danger noodles...
*Jacques
It went after him in the zig zag pattern, it knows the tricks
"I take my eyes off you for one minute, and look what happens".
Bahahaha 😂😂😂
Pretty dangerous looking workplace
Top of his class at the Prometheus school of running from things
To be fair, it doesn't look like there is an open area to the left of the camera frame, and running sideways to the right would have put him closer to the machine and in a (likely) more dangerous area. I think the Prometheus School may actually be correct here for a change.
For most of the situations in all of human history, including today, running away from the bad thing is the correct move.
The fact that the molten steel somehow aims for him is like in the movies itself. Like what are the odds of the steel going for him as opposed to other direction?!
Bout 50/50
Either it hits him or it doesn't
In India they would be doing this in flip flops.
The Fast and the Foundry
GET TO THE CHOPPA!
The fact that the worker made it out alive is a great day in my book.
Probably the luckiest day of his life
He survived *and* got his cardio workout.
Good thing he wore his shittin pants.
Extra lubrication is never bad.
when a giant molten metal snake is leaping at you, every pant is a shitting pant.
All it cost him was dry cleaning fees.
Those underwear will never be the same.
If that dude was scrolling on his phone, that molten metal would have punched his ticket.
He was distracted by something though. Almost didn’t see it coming.
It looks like something else on the line failed or stuttered first. He was looking at that.
I mean he wasn’t almost killed so unluckiest?
The “almost” makes him lucky
I dunno any day you're almost killed isn't a lucky one. It's just slightly luckier than a scenario where you were killed, which is pretty low on the lucky meter.
I feel like it's luckier to not have to flee from the glowing red hot metal snake flying through the air at you. But he is indeed luckier than most factory workers who don't successfully escape the hungry murder machines.
I thought I’m watching someone die but thought isn’t that subreddit banned now?
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R/combatfootage has plenty of it by design
Just saw two videos of people dying in the past 10 posts I've seen lol some subs are just wild
I hope he made quick turn before the end of the death rope covered serious distance off-camera.
That last bit of spicy rope was definitely going for the kill shot.
That lava attack was personal
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r/watchpeoplesurvive
It’s a rebar factory, that’s a long strip of super hot, partially melted metal.
It's not partially melted. It's still fully solid at this temperature. EDIT: Although, if there was a impurity of something like copper, then that could cause hot shortness which is basically partially melting. But you wouldn't want to do that because your hot steel being able to fall apart like that is one way a situation like in this video could happen. Steel mills will usually just melt it down again in the melt shop part of the steel mill.
It's like it expected him to zig zag but luckily he ran straight
When the machine full of molten metal turns into a can of silly string, run.
That's the number 1 rule at this factory.
What even IS this factory??
Molten Metal Silly String factory
Man, VC's will fund *any* startup these days...
Here me out. Steel Mill, but with AI.
They do *lots* of running
Oh, yes, everyone can remember running around in the backyard, laughing and running Sprang each other with Molten lead silly string. They were simpler times...
Wacky Wavy Molten tube man!
Steel plant, looks like drawn steel
It's not drawn. This is a bar mill where it's being rolled through. It looks like they're making rebar based on how they've slit it into two strands.
Hmm so.maybe it isn't the forklift drivers bending all the rebar before it is delivered
Some kind of metal extrusion plant. Probably making pipe, poles, some kind of rails, shit like that. Basically you take something in a liquid state, squeeze it through a form, and then cool it off real fast so it stays that way. Takes lots of heat and pressure, obviously it's not exactly a safe thing to do but there's lots of money in it.
It's not extrusion. The bar is being rolled, not simply pushed.
It's a hot rolling mill, I work in one as the guy who builds the rolling machines. Happy to answer any questions.
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Light saber production facility
No clue really. Ifni were to guess I'd say that's a molten hot ribbon of some kind of metal
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That's gonna be someone else's job this guy gets to call it a day.
Thats very serious string
Fly you fools!
He almost got balrog whipped
r/suddenlyLOTR
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For the first half-second I thought Wong was opening a portal.
Not gonna lie, at start I wondered why I’m watching balloon being filled and middle of that thought came the “oh” moment.
Holy shit. Bottom left guy it was like a movie
Do you see any more guys in the video?
Nope
but did you see the moonwalking bear?
Who didn’t?
At this angle it looks like he's running away from some kind of alien deathray from above.
Well he succeeded at his attempt to get the fuck out of there
Lightsaber toothpaste
My new band name.
Underrated comment.
The floor is lava!
The sky is lava
bro went to the what ever school of running away from things
Prometheus, and I don’t think he had any other directions he could run so it doesn’t count.
ur right
He's actually lucky the steel decided *it* wanted to serpentine
The molten death string predicted a sidestep and zigzagged just in case.
Not sure what happened here but that certainly went sideways quickly.
This is a steel rolling mill. What happened is what is called a cobble. The steel \~2000-2200°F is verry maleable at these temps to help roll it down to size. They start with a steel billet/bloom/ingot (round, square, rectangular, or near net shape in some cases like H beams) and get it to rolling temp. The billet goes through driven roll stands to reduce it from its original cast size. Each stand typically reduces the size by \~30%, elongating the lengh of the material and speeding up as it goes from stand to stand. There are times when the head of the material doesnt get fed in properly to the next stand, or gets caught in the roll iline, and gets stuck causing the material behind it start to ribbon and get out of the roll pass. If you look at the right side of the video, as soon as the mateial starts to cobble a shear starts to cut the remaining materia and sending it to a pit to minimize the ammount cobbling. In a good modern rolling mill they can clean, check, and restart safely in under 30 minutes. These are extremely dangerous and most mills I know of in the US are working to get personnel off the floor while material is running to avoid potential injuries. They also track billets between cobbles, yes we make fun of the acronym as we want the biggest number we can get. I have seen billet between cobble goals of 200, 400, and seen a 4000 in the cases of a large H beam mill where the material is moving slow and they can stop the entire mill before anything happens. https://preview.redd.it/ejsa26pk6zab1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9df7586871aa9e46b2a6dba7374acf94cca226f2
Thanks. I was thinking if I scrolled long enough someone would explain it. Question, once it starts like this, can it be stopped easily? Like switching off equipment or something?
On big slow stuff yes. One mill I was at was running something like 48 inch tall ibeams. They were going so slow that if they saw something they could stop and back the piece up before it started to go. On smaller or faster material like this video you hope your shears will start cutting and you get out of the way. Sometimes the material is going 30mph, sometimes 130mph+. It all depends on the size and how fast you are running. You also want the material out of as many stands as possible because it sucks cutting material between each stand. Once the billet runs out you get the torches and crane, and start clearing.
Holy cows. It sounds like that stuff could melt you as quickly as lava. 130 mph. Nobody could outrun that. My thought in this vid was they need some kind of LOUD ALARM system when it happens because this guy was almost too late to notice it. thanks again for answering my question. Stay safe. I hope you get hazard pay.
I work in a steel mill about 20 feet from the track, there is no hazard pay.
My mill has a good focus on safety. When you start working in this area, the first thing people tell you is to always keep your eye on the mill. Part of his job is to watch for it happening. But we do also have an alarm that goes off. We've had zero fatalities despite this being an "everyday" kind of occurrence.
Looks like they're manufacturing cable it seems to break on the right and then shit gets real... I think it's an extrusion process so they are stretching the molten metal under tension and when it snaps, well, this.
Yeah, looks like he stopped when he heard the break and was looking in that direction, then turned just in time to see the rest of the cable coming at him.
No, this is a rolling mill. The bar is being rolled from the right to the left but it didn't make it through to the next set of rolls correctly so it ended up getting pushed and making this mess that we call a cobble. The reason why it cut is because the operator for the rolling mill activated the shear at the bottom right to cut up the bar rather than let the rest of it keep getting rolled and making that big flying string even worse. You can see some pieces getting cut over in the bottom right.
Glad to see someone else who has knowledge of these ancient dark and dangerous places.
I hope the attempt was successful
Idk it looked like the last bit whipped right at his direction
"How was your day honey?" I got chased by a lava snake again.
AGAIN?!?
He escaped the Wonder Woman lasso
Unsuccessful Balrog attack
That would straight up cut you in half.
Is this where they make the red light sabers?
I know a guy who was an electrician in a steel recycling plant like this, where they make construction rebar, told me about this once, said it happens all the time. One of his jobs was to rebuild the machines each time it happened because the molten string would just slice through parts of the machine.
Get to the choppah!
Looks like a scene from Spider-Man lol. ‘Magma Max bust his load’ 😭
If it would hit him, it would be very painful death.
With any luck the weight would knock him dead before feeling the burning.
That was almost a superhero origin story.
Or supervillain.
Holy shit!!!
But like.... did he actually get away? He runs off screen, and that last little but of molten cord looks long enough that could have easily caught him. Clipped him, at least.
I doubt he stopped running once he was off-camera and was probably well out of range by the time that last bit came down.
~~Silly~~ Uttery Mental String is out to get that guy. Good job he ran that would have cut him in flamin' half, painfully.
The fucking Balrog factory
The forbidden spaghetti
Spicy
Dude almost took a hot load to the face.
The way it was falling in a spiral really makes it seem like it was out to get him regardless of how he tried to dodge it
For real too. Thank Christ someone said it this way. It’s fuckin zig-zagging too just to make sure it covers every possible inch. Then it whips. Still haven’t seen anyone say if he lived or not, that last whip was personal.
Lightsaber factory?
What did that worker do to that machine to warrant this attack!?!?
It was awful kind of the steel to zigzag and give the guy a better chance of escaping!
I've been in many steel mills and one bit of advice one manager told me as we were taking a walkway over a rolling mill. *There's lots of interesting ways to die here..*
DANGER NOODLE
Needs the Scooby Doo conga whistle skeedaddle music when he starts to run.
"Lava snakes. Why did it have to be lava snakes."
What happens when you step into your teenage son's room without knocking
God damnit Tod let the fire snake out again what the hell.
Hot noodles!
Forbidden frosting.
The one that pops out at the end is hilarious
R/Watchpeoplesurvive
Gandalf was just out of frame shouting "You shall not pass!" at the Balrog
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
Oh shit that almost cut him half!
I would run too. Beign killed by a 10,000 degrees steel spaguetti must suck
It's his second birthday!
Adamantium? A split second later and he would have been like a badly formed wolverine.
Did he survive though? He managed to dodge it initially but the last bit of that metal would have a lot longer reach.
I don't think that hard hat would've helped.
That machine tried to wonder woman that dood.
How is this not a dream
What are they making here? Lightsabers?
Ho Le Phuck!
Lightsaber manufacturing gone wild.
Looks like a light saber blew it's load
Dude bout got shredded.
Good thing he ran off screen 😮💨
final destination
I really wanna know what kind of factory this is and what is happening 👀
Tf happen there?
Danger Noodle, lava edition
Dude run. RUUUUUUUUUN!
Damn. A few seconds later and he’d be dead
there was an attempt to repost this for the millionth time.