worker burns alive in factory accident (cctv footage)

I work in a steel mill, before I got my current job at the blast furnace, I was at a place like the one shown in the video (BOF shop, converter platform). I did exactly the same work. The poor guy was measuring the steel temp with this long lance with a disposable thermometer at the end.

What probably happened is that a huge chunk of slag mixed with steel fell into the converter (during the process, some slag and steel splashes at the doghouse walls and doors around the converter and cool down. After some time, these chunks get pretty huge (and heavy ofcourse), and can fall down at the slightest shake. This caused the steel and slag (probably mostly slag) to splash out of the converter and at the poor worker.

This once almost happened to my workmate, right after he took a steel sample. He was lucky that he was already done, a few seconds earlier, he would have been burnt to a crisp.

As some people here talked about safety gear: My steel mill (in Austria) is pretty modern, they actually invented the process used for steelmaking in almost all steel mills today, and we don't have much more protection gear too. When measuring the temp, we are told to wear a fireproof apron, but if something like that happened, it wouldn't protect us anyway.

The pictures of silver-clad workers are at a blast furnace, where I now work, and where we wear similar fire resistant coats. Although those just protect you from the iron sparks, any larger splashes would burn right through it.

I hope I could help.

In china they really don´t believe in safety gear.

This is how it looks in civilized countries

lol, took them like a minute to find a fire extinguisher and they don't even know how to operate it.

Work accidents are cruel.

Hard to say “he died doing what he loved”.

Definitely one of the worst ways to die. Or even worse, survive.

A place that deals with extreme heat and molten and burning substances but don't have any trained personnel in how to deal with emergency management or burns and don't have any equipment to hand to do it with - sounds about right..

They found the fire extinguisher way too late, once bro turned into a ball of pure light I think he was probably dead already or too close to it to be saved

Yeah, stop drop and roll ain’t helping with that one.

China? All employees got a 5 mins break and a deduction of 200 social credits for leaving their work station

he didnt stop drop and roll

They literally had a fire blanket right behind them. Ducking dumbasses panicked

Run but you can not hide

they were so slow to react and bring the extinguisher and cover

These factories never seem to have the safety equipment on hand to douse fires.

One minute after accident: "I got the fire extinguisher!"

One minute and 30 seconds after accident: "I think I figured out how to work it!"

That’s what I call Chinese BBQ…

Thats his body fat burning with a bright flame, like a human candle

At least they were quick with the fire extinguishers 2 miles away.

he was alittle past stop drop and role to be honest

Yo what, are you telling me they don't receive training and equipment to treat a burning in an environment where that is a huge hazard?

Chinese government special operations for population control

he's not just .. on fire, he's covered in molten metal, I don't think there's anything they could have done to save him

Do they not obsessively teach kids about stop drop & roll, and quicksand in foreign countries?

Seriously, if this happened in a military situation, say active combat, they'd just shot him dead.

All those fucking people and not one fire extinguisher

you could say this was… fire..

he's toast

And not a fire extinguisher in sight, in a factory with MOLTEN METAL.

Personally, I wouldn’t let that slide

Seems like he didnt believe trans lives matter