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Uploaded by on Sep 29, 2007

The tapping of blast furnace 'C' at Bethlehem Steel taken in the 1990s. Photographed by Mike Curry.

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  • In Sweden we don'nt use silvercoats :P Just flameproof jackets or shirts. Cool blastfurnace though. Too bad the steel industry has hit rock bottom in the financial crisis. Horrific amounts of people have lost their jobs at the mills because of it. But once a steelworker, always a steelworker. It is such a special job. Despite the heat and the smoke I could not imagine another job I would go to with a smile on my face. Cheers and good fortune to all of you steelworkers out there!

  • Worked there on that Furnace for many years, it's a job and sombody have to do it. I am glad I was part of it.

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  • I have a Forman that works with me at ak steel that came drone there he is one hell of a guy. I really like my job helping make steel even though I'm not at the blast furnace but over making coke for it.

  • love how the men at about 2:20 sit down and just think, "yeah...ive done this about 1000 times...gonna sit back, have a sammich, and wait 'till she's done emptying..."

  • What the hell is in that smoke? I can't imagine that being good at all to breathe. But damn that looks like one hell of an awesome job. Just being in there must be cool.

  • um...

  • i drive by bethlehem steel everyday to school. my grandfather worked there for almost all his life. when bethlehem steel started dieng, buffalo did too.

  • @adnanafif thank you for the work you did in that furnace, my fellow Americans and i are in great debt to you and your co-workers, although barley any realize it. what exactly was your position ?

  • Things just wont be the same without old Beth around. Anyone notice all the shipyards are gone too?

  • Another Nordic Metal band is born!!!

  • @southern4501isawesom so true.. it was a sad moment in this neck of the woods when they shut down the home plant. 16 years already! :-/

  • @adnanafif i salute you sir, you are a rare breed and sad to say a dying breed. My children (if i have any) and their children will most likely read about the american steel industry in their history books and the teachers will most likely talk it down and tell them that it was a drag on the environment and that its a good thing that is gone..... well hopefully that doesnt happen and maybe congress will pull their heads out that thing we call our ass

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