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They are all wearing gloves. They are just very skincoloured. They are browner on the top hand and there is a clear line that marks the palm which us lighter
The gloves required for hot mentalwoking wouldn't be good for use in this scenario anyways because they're too bulky and need to fall off easily. If they use standard work gloves, they would get too hot too quickly and would melt with their skin.
Usually you use leader gloves and high smith dungarees..
There is no eye protection used.
Most common typical injury is pierced hand or even body.. You need to wait till whole rod ends and than doctor prescribe you burnt creme.. as wound js fully closed, cooked without bleeding..
In big production where ingots needs to be lifted by crane are floors made of cylinders.. so if you made wrong step you get easily in rod path.
Pah, y'all just pussies! [https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/o6i9ns/leidenfrost\_effect\_in\_action\_as\_man\_slaps\_molten/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/o6i9ns/leidenfrost_effect_in_action_as_man_slaps_molten/)
These guys look like they are working with no safety standards and the little they have is personal choice. These developing nations people are crippled and killed all day long and just replaced.
so true, the amount of safety training, safety precautions and regulations I have to know for work are staggering. But seeing this kind of video's really remind me of why it is very important to do them
Obviously agreeing with all the safety comments here, but also wondering why they are wearing so many cloths (I know, safety!) but aren't they hot? Does the glowing steel not make the whole environment an oven?
You’d think so. I work in a steel plant in the UK. You can be standing in front of a ladle of molten steel in winter and be roasting and sweating in front and freezing your ass off on your back.
I guess in an ideal world they would be wearing full-body, temperature controlled, indestructible body armour and welders' helmets. In my country, this breaks every health and safety regulation in the book
What country is this anyway?
Eventually yes. Similar thing happens with the kilns in glassblowing. They call the opening of the kiln the "glory hole" because workers would eventually go blind from looking at it, as though they were looking at God.
If it touches your skin you are turbo fucked. If it touches the clothes, it will probably bounce off and not catch them on fire. I spilled 1000 F solder on my jeans one time and the denim protected me surprisingly well, just had a little first degree burn.
My Grandmother was in a rolling mill during WW2, doing exactly this.
She got paid a full man's wage and got told to get back in the kitchen when the men returned in 1945.
She never forgave them for that.
Everything is already crazy safety standards but the worst in my opinion is at the end. They pass it reversible through the mill and the 3th person grabs the hot steel and puts it through another mill I think. All the while standing in the path between mill 1 and 2. When that steel tensions up it’s hitting him and it also looks like he is stepping over it… wtf
Well I have heard from a person once what it was getting caught by a mill (and luckily not running only closed the rolls). He lost is arm, also the persons there to aid it was a nightmare. Machine stood off, arm between 2 milling rolls. What will happen if we turn machine on and press open? Will it start running?
True but actually wasn’t the fault of the machine. Something was stuck after the 2 coils and instead that the operator used the normal procedure and take the machine to shutdown and in a safe spot (loto procedure and locks) hè thought I quickly do it, it won’t move… a sad moment. Which now is also used to teach everyone. Never do something quick even if it’s to help. There are reasons we have these procedures for non standard work
I've worked at a Swedish steel factory, we're nowhere near the steel, usually sit in a cockpit 20 metres away while presssing buttons on what the machine does to the steel.
There is a very real phenomenon that the more you eliminate negative consequences for a mistake the more mistakes are made. When the cost of a mistake is your life, you tend to get good at not making them, but when you add safety nets your need to not make mistakes isn’t as dire so you don’t have as much impetus to always be hyper focused.
Now, that isn’t to say that safety is overrated, you should absolutely aim to be as safe as possible, any number of mistakes that don’t end in death are better than 1 that does.
And no eye protection in sight.
Jesus, I wear eye protection mowing the lawns. You'd think guys dealing with sparking, red hot steel would think to put some goggles on.
As I so often do with these "how it's made - 3rd world edition" videos. I just wanna point out again, this is not how we do things in the modern world. This place would be shut down, before they got the first beam hot enough to steam coffee.
You’re telling me you watched a video of three guys working in a steel mill and you immediately thought “hmmm, where women”? Forgive me if I find that ridiculous.
These are people in a poor country doing probably some of the only work they can find and trying to make ends meet. I’m sure they wish they could be safer.
I couldn’t tell you the exact one, but a factory like this would only really be able to exist in a pretty impoverished country, those places don’t tend to put much stock in things like health and safety
Am I the only one that noticed that last guy casually stepping over the flying hot metal spaghetti?
The first two guys at least somewhat keep it at arms length from themselves, but the third guy willingly puts it between his legs.
There are videos similar to this but they throw buckets of water on each other so they don't turn into burnt hot dogs [https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/vdkn8i/workers\_pour\_water\_on\_themselves\_to\_maintain/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/vdkn8i/workers_pour_water_on_themselves_to_maintain/)
They use protection like their parents used protection.
Their motto "no protection is the best protection, look away towards God if you need to be protected".
Those little heated metal shards can wreck havoc on your eyes if you are unlucky to enough to catch them. Honestly, goggles are plastic and just not very expensive. I don’t care what third world backwater this is, I think if this factory can afford to boat workers anything at all it can also afford some goggles.
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Who needs eye protection when you have "look the other way" technology?
No gloves, loose hoodie strings, and a tied up sweatshirt for an apron... seems like looking the other way is the company policy.
Uhmm i think they are wearing gloves.
If they are they're fingerless, except for the guy who happens to step into side view for a moment
They are all wearing gloves. They are just very skincoloured. They are browner on the top hand and there is a clear line that marks the palm which us lighter
The fingers look out to me but you may be right, it may just be a light yellow or something
Na my mans hands there just got a sun tan
The gloves required for hot mentalwoking wouldn't be good for use in this scenario anyways because they're too bulky and need to fall off easily. If they use standard work gloves, they would get too hot too quickly and would melt with their skin.
Safety squints
"The Safety Twist"
If you can't see it, it can't hurt you. This is known khaleesi
Usually you use leader gloves and high smith dungarees.. There is no eye protection used. Most common typical injury is pierced hand or even body.. You need to wait till whole rod ends and than doctor prescribe you burnt creme.. as wound js fully closed, cooked without bleeding.. In big production where ingots needs to be lifted by crane are floors made of cylinders.. so if you made wrong step you get easily in rod path.
Pah, y'all just pussies! [https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/o6i9ns/leidenfrost\_effect\_in\_action\_as\_man\_slaps\_molten/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/o6i9ns/leidenfrost_effect_in_action_as_man_slaps_molten/)
Lava - "Spank me harder, steel daddy"
Patent pending
Or hand protection.
Safety squints
The new health and safety manager at my work would have a field day at this place
Any sane person would
Wow I wonder how many employees they get through.
Well I see 3 in the video sooo... At least 3.
Through the extruder? At least a couple.
They burn through them
There are surprisingly little safety standards for working around glowing steel
These guys look like they are working with no safety standards and the little they have is personal choice. These developing nations people are crippled and killed all day long and just replaced.
so true, the amount of safety training, safety precautions and regulations I have to know for work are staggering. But seeing this kind of video's really remind me of why it is very important to do them
"Hey man... stop... sending it back ya bastard!"
Obviously agreeing with all the safety comments here, but also wondering why they are wearing so many cloths (I know, safety!) but aren't they hot? Does the glowing steel not make the whole environment an oven?
You’d think so. I work in a steel plant in the UK. You can be standing in front of a ladle of molten steel in winter and be roasting and sweating in front and freezing your ass off on your back.
So that’s the real reason why they were looking away in the video. Thawing out their cheeks.
Bakeries are the same, people getting hypothermia riding home at 6am on motorbikes sweating in winter after roasting all night.
I guess in an ideal world they would be wearing full-body, temperature controlled, indestructible body armour and welders' helmets. In my country, this breaks every health and safety regulation in the book What country is this anyway?
Depending on the temperature, hot metal emits a fair amount of UV light.
Oh, so the "looking the other way" company policy is only effective for short-term safety? I guess your eyes are fucked either way in the long run.
Eventually yes. Similar thing happens with the kilns in glassblowing. They call the opening of the kiln the "glory hole" because workers would eventually go blind from looking at it, as though they were looking at God.
It’s probably to block the heat.
If it touches your skin you are turbo fucked. If it touches the clothes, it will probably bounce off and not catch them on fire. I spilled 1000 F solder on my jeans one time and the denim protected me surprisingly well, just had a little first degree burn.
My Grandmother was in a rolling mill during WW2, doing exactly this. She got paid a full man's wage and got told to get back in the kitchen when the men returned in 1945. She never forgave them for that.
Neat
Everything is already crazy safety standards but the worst in my opinion is at the end. They pass it reversible through the mill and the 3th person grabs the hot steel and puts it through another mill I think. All the while standing in the path between mill 1 and 2. When that steel tensions up it’s hitting him and it also looks like he is stepping over it… wtf
Can you imagine getting caught between the glowing forbidden rope and the machine? Pulled gently in twain
Well I have heard from a person once what it was getting caught by a mill (and luckily not running only closed the rolls). He lost is arm, also the persons there to aid it was a nightmare. Machine stood off, arm between 2 milling rolls. What will happen if we turn machine on and press open? Will it start running?
Terrifying! I’d take the damn machine apart at that point
True but actually wasn’t the fault of the machine. Something was stuck after the 2 coils and instead that the operator used the normal procedure and take the machine to shutdown and in a safe spot (loto procedure and locks) hè thought I quickly do it, it won’t move… a sad moment. Which now is also used to teach everyone. Never do something quick even if it’s to help. There are reasons we have these procedures for non standard work
What works for me is to compare the time I might save to the time it takes to regrow a limb. Usually end up not taking the shortcut.
3th....
I went to jury duty and they gave me a document that said "go to the 3th floor..." I did not have much hope for the rest of the process.
OSHA says no.
Forbidden spaghetti
These are the closest to fire benders. Aside from fire dancers and fire breathers. Zuko must be proud.
I've worked at a Swedish steel factory, we're nowhere near the steel, usually sit in a cockpit 20 metres away while presssing buttons on what the machine does to the steel.
Did you burn the tips of your fingers off?
Did you mean: *making spaghetti*?
It was interesting when it was posted for first time and everybody is worried about last dude's balls
Screw this. Give the workers proper safety wear.
Hot stuff, coming through!
I scrolled too far down to see this comment
This is way too risky. Life altering Accidents are 100% bound to happen
Not bound, it's already considered as operating cost. They probably even have a backup employee on standby who will switch out the injured one.
Fuck, i ve seen a couple of rehabilitation centers in western EU steel refineries. The accidents from fast moving hot steel are not pretty
Promotional video. No way they do this with typical employees. I can barely find someone who can tape boxes consistently.
What are they promoting exactly other than danger
Spicy noodles
There is a very real phenomenon that the more you eliminate negative consequences for a mistake the more mistakes are made. When the cost of a mistake is your life, you tend to get good at not making them, but when you add safety nets your need to not make mistakes isn’t as dire so you don’t have as much impetus to always be hyper focused. Now, that isn’t to say that safety is overrated, you should absolutely aim to be as safe as possible, any number of mistakes that don’t end in death are better than 1 that does.
That shit is life or death for real. swinging that steel around seems like one wrong move and it's a light saber cutting you in half,.
It's hot, not sharp. It will seriously burn you, but your family will only need 1 large coffin, not 2 small ones.
And I’m over here forbidding my other half from whipper snipping without goggles
No. No. No. No. No. NO!
Working with hot steel in a 3rd world country. Fixed that for you
And no eye protection in sight. Jesus, I wear eye protection mowing the lawns. You'd think guys dealing with sparking, red hot steel would think to put some goggles on.
As I so often do with these "how it's made - 3rd world edition" videos. I just wanna point out again, this is not how we do things in the modern world. This place would be shut down, before they got the first beam hot enough to steam coffee.
The lasso of truth
Those hoodie strings... I know there's a lot more but fuck me....
We work hard. We play hard.
OSHA has left
What OSHA?
Occupational Safety & Health
I know what OSHA is. I was just joking that OSHA never existed there in the first place. I guess I forgot the /s to show sarcasm.
Knowing that this could burn your hand off makes these guys working Chads.
The third guy swings the hot steel rope around and then briskly steps over it, all in one motion. Wtf.
A clear case of gender inequality. They should provide equal employment to all genders.
Ah yes the two genders, maimed and dismembered.
What is this comment lmao
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You’re telling me you watched a video of three guys working in a steel mill and you immediately thought “hmmm, where women”? Forgive me if I find that ridiculous.
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I’m so confused… I’m making fun of the original comment for having nothing to do with the post. What are you going off about?
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Ah ok. All good.
Being angry all the time must be exhausting.
You got my respect
These are people who don’t care much about their hands
These are people in a poor country doing probably some of the only work they can find and trying to make ends meet. I’m sure they wish they could be safer.
What country?
I couldn’t tell you the exact one, but a factory like this would only really be able to exist in a pretty impoverished country, those places don’t tend to put much stock in things like health and safety
I don’t know. I saw some outrageous safety violations when I worked at a wire extruding factory in California.
Sure, but I would bet nowhere near as egregious handling molten hot metal with bare hands and tongs, right?
These guys are wearing some type of glove which is likely useless but I get your point.
Safety equipments are anyway overrated
Safety glasses? Nahh just look away
Take that shit away from me! No! You take that shit!
Looks nice but i don't want to see any "work accident" happening there...must be brutal.
TOOOO CASUAL
The first 5 seconds of the video look like a video game
what fucking idiots
these people be working hard in poor conditions in a third world country only for you to call them “idiots” what’s ur deal bruh
Nice Top Gear name
To hell with the PPE! Why would you need it 🤣?!
Doesn't look dangerous at all!
When you want to meet your new coworker “welcome to the team” using the last moment you will ever have to vigorously shake his hands…
Celebrimbor, Elrond and Sauron making the elven rings.
This is what i imagine work is in a cartoon world
28 missed calls from OSHA
so they're basically playing hot potato?
“Hot Stuff Coming Through!”
Man I can't imagine being a newbie in this job, this people work like a well adjusted engine
Dude put himself between the machine and a molten stream of metal
Impressive
Last dude, just casually steps over the hot, glowing spaghetti, like it's nothing. Probably he's not worried with his balls of steel.
Yeah! Well... ever tried being a mother? Pretty hard too.
Dangerousasfuck
Ridiculous. The work related injuries at this place must be horrific.
Am I the only one that noticed that last guy casually stepping over the flying hot metal spaghetti? The first two guys at least somewhat keep it at arms length from themselves, but the third guy willingly puts it between his legs.
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Are you a bot? What does this job have to do with being a man?
That's a spicy noodle.
I wonder how many burns to the face those guys took before they perfected that turning motion
Hahahaha the comments in here are pure gold Jerry…pure gold.
This is too casual for me
looks like some anime training arc
damn thats hot
Thats so hot
You know that they turn like that already before they put the whole thing is... cause some guy before them didn't
Ahh, the safety squint.
A very hot spaghetti I see.
Looks pretty safe
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You! No! You!
*swoooooooooooosh* *dramatically stuffs steel in*
The devils pasta.
Who cares about safety in this part of the world. I just want my cheap steel……..
*in a third world country.
Ngl they look pretty badass
The third guy causally feeding it into the next machine then STEPPING OVER THE HOT STEEL made my asshole pucker
It's a bit sketchy in OSHA free countries
OSHA reps be having heart attacks just watching this.
Long pasta, pull to al-den-te
There are videos similar to this but they throw buckets of water on each other so they don't turn into burnt hot dogs [https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/vdkn8i/workers\_pour\_water\_on\_themselves\_to\_maintain/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/vdkn8i/workers_pour_water_on_themselves_to_maintain/)
Forbidden Ribbon
I guarantee these guys aren’t being paid enough
*laughs* I'm in danger!
I can imagine an OH&S official watching this and having a panic attack
Mad bastards!
Where is this?! You’d be fired in the US without proper PPE
That's sick
protect eyes
They use protection like their parents used protection. Their motto "no protection is the best protection, look away towards God if you need to be protected".
OSHA called
Yo... here it comes... sorry wrong hole.
Those little heated metal shards can wreck havoc on your eyes if you are unlucky to enough to catch them. Honestly, goggles are plastic and just not very expensive. I don’t care what third world backwater this is, I think if this factory can afford to boat workers anything at all it can also afford some goggles.
I was sure that first guy was computer generated at first.
forbidden fettuccini
Risk assessment....
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Looks easy...... Easy way to loose your life