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Is that where you got your name mashr?, did you press the drop periscope button?
It could be.....
Somewhere lurking in the back of my brain is a story similar to the molten steel ones above. It was something to do with a guy committing suicide in an iron foundry in 1970s/80s South Africa.
He climbed up on a gantry and jumped into a big pot of molten metal. But the surface tension of the metal was high enough to prevent him penetrating so he "bounced" and cooked to death on the surface.
When this thread came up I thought of the guy dragged behind a truck a few years back.
Coincidently one of the perps got his comeuppance this week:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-48040916
Definitely on my "I don't believe the death penalty is a good idea but..." list.
When I was apprenticing at a firm that made power transformers, we had the Hawker Siddley Senior Test engineer visit. It was a Friday afternoon and we'd all been down the pub for lunch (as you did back then) when he sobered everyone up with the tale of the apprentice who had somehow got into the area where they were testing the 400kV transformer and managed to provide an arc path for the electricity. Once they'd worked out what was going on and got the electricity switched off, they put him out with fire extinguishers. He managed to live a few days before succumbing to his burns.
My uncle drowned in a vat of furniture polish. It was a horrible end, but a lovely finish.
jesus christ you guys dont mince your words with these stories...
The school next to ours had a kid fall off the trampoline and die.
The ambulance man who attended the accident was his dad.
Not a gruesome death but 40 years later I still feel sorry for the father.
Those who say health and safety has gone mad are bellends
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I walked round a metal finishers a little while ago on a H&S visit. They had a big galvanising tank (think armco and street light poles), and they said in the old days, there'd be a big stick next to it, if someone fell into the 450˚C molten zinc, the kindest thing to do was to keep them under so they went quickly. Don't know whether this was a tall story, but it sounded real.
I'm sure he bounced back in the end zippy
The school next to ours had a kid fall off the trampoline and die.
The ambulance man who attended the accident was his dad.
My dad was in the fire brigade for 30 years, one night they had a fatal rtc to attend and the duty doctor arrived to discover it was his wife and child. You just can't imagine how that would affect you.
They also had one fireman leave within his first month on the job, they were attending an incident in which an old lady had died after falling asleep while smoking. The fire had really just smouldered and she'd died from smoke inhalation as is so common in such cases. This fireman went to lift her body off the bed but she'd been cooked right through and she fell apart in his hands.
Falling into a meat grinder, what a truly offal way to go.
Human beings have a density of slightly less than 1.00g/ml.
Molten zinc has a density of somewhere in the region of 7.14g/ml. Trying to use a stick to submerge a body in the liquid would be near enough impossible, perhaps similar to pushing a football underwater.
OK batman, but realistically, falling into anything a bit hot, you'll be dead fast.
I think this subject must be the worst way to go, due to the build up of what causes it...
EGF- I agree.