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Start of a New Culture
“Fire brigade, now. Powder only. No! Not water. No water at all.” The crew
leader’s voice was shaking.
The General Purpose Crane (GP) driver had driven over a pot reconstruc-
tion operation in line 1 with a full crucible of metal. And miscalculated.
The best part of two metric tons of metal had spilt on the hydraulics of the
Hitachi digger. The re raged up the digger and into the roof. Beneath it, the
potline bus bar was starting to warp on the operating oor, and there was
molten aluminum in the basement below the pot being excavated.
Rob had been called at 1 a.m., and it was now almost an hour later. Rob was
standing ...