Steel Industry Safety in 1936

A steel industry point of view of worker safety hazards in their mills in 1936. For up-to-date information on occupational health and safety in the steel industry, go to the United Steelworkers Union website: http://www.uswsafetyguide.org/. This clip is from the 1936 industrial film, "Steel: symphony of industry," available at the Internet Archives.

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News & Politics

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• steel
• safety
• OSHA
• industrial
• hygiene
• worker
• labor

[jascokovacevic]

wow..asbestos suit and helmet!

[Palenka]

lol asbestos suit

[Nonamed22]

@peter17dude My quarrel is with todays people whoi want everything and do everything and expect, yes even demand, it comes at no cost. Every job is dangerous. but if you know and understand the danger you can work safely. I have seen plenty people get and myself get hurt at work because we didn`t understand the danger. Today I work as safety supervisor in my company and I can tell you from experience if people get hurt at work 90 times out of 100 they are to blame and not their job or the tools.

[peter17dude]

@Nonamed22 whats your point? have you ever lokked at nanotubes through a microscope? it looks and behaves like asbestos? my point is that every generation thinks they know everything,

let me ask you this: if someone told Marie curie that the rock shes holding emitts invisible radiation that will hurt her, they would end up in an asylum.

[Nonamed22]

@KohrAh116 If you want to have an absoluetly safe job than stand still. Don`t move. Ever.

[Nonamed22]

@peter17dude I believe human stupidty online is the new killer.

[Drewman030]

@hollywoodwags... You sound like someone who has never done anything in their life except pace back and forth across their little padded room... The steel industry today is one of the safest industries in the world. Not sure how people would have cars, extract energy, transport that energy, build shelter, or support every other economic function without steel. What would you propose?

[HollywoodWags]

The way to make a steel mill absolutely safe is to not have a steel mill.

[SKYEscraper93]

my Dad worked Bethlehem Steel in lackawanna New York during those days. Safety? Dad had plenty of stories about "safety".

[northerbrewer]

Coble in the hot mill as red hot rebar flings around like an angry bull whip.

Try not to get hurt .

Cut up the pieces and start over lol.

I miss those days....