Movement of hot ingots.

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My dad worked on the Siemens furnaces at E S C for many years and he told me that after a melt was spoilt by a man falling into the ladle ,the pour was stopped and the meta lput to one side for a time .The reason being the preparing l of steel is a bit like baking a cake , all the ingredients have to be right to turn out as you want. A body added to the mix would radically change the carbon content an probably make the steel harder than required.

 

Good point, but this is not hearsay, I was there at the time.

 

Maybe the impurities would be poured off with the rest of the slag, I don't know about that, but it the workers were Pi**ed off about it.