A man working in a steel plant was removing steel slag from the bottom of an upright ladle. He was using a jack hammer, a pry bar and a cutting torch fueled by acetylene and oxygen. The ladle was about 14 feet deep by 10 feet across. When he walked away from this task to take a coffee break, he left his equipment in the bottom of the ladle. When he returned 25 minutes later, he started to light the cutting torch to begin work again. An explosion occurred and the victim was engulfed in flames. A crane operator saw […]