Keyboard In The Wilderness wrote:


Steel Mill Stories from the 40's (Maybe Urban Legend)

Armco (now A-K) Steel in Middletown Ohio supposedly had a man (who
was upset over his wife cheating on him) commit suicide by jumping into
one of the soaking pits were they heat the ingots before it is rolled
into sheet metal.

The country artist, Tom T. Hall, wrote and recorded a song called,
"The rolling mills of Middletown" about it. The company was going to
sue him over it, but they never did.

A friend of mine who worked there told me they had a big problem with
the old vending machines, and the company that owned them refused to
maintain them. Someone on night shift lost his last quarter in a Coke
machine so he got back on his fork lift, rammed the forks through the
machine, and dumped it into one of the empty soaking pits to watch it
melt.
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 03:55:16 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Armco (now A-K) Steel in Middletown Ohio supposedly had a man (who
was upset over his wife cheating on him) commit suicide by jumping into
one of the soaking pits were they heat the ingots before it is rolled
into sheet metal.

This reminds me of the old HG Wells short story, 'The Cone' where
precisely the same set of events is described in gory detail. Well
worth a read...
--

"I believe history will be kind to me, since I intend
to write it." - Winston Churchill

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 03:55:16 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

Armco (now A-K) Steel in Middletown Ohio supposedly had a man (who
was upset over his wife cheating on him) commit suicide by jumping into
one of the soaking pits were they heat the ingots before it is rolled
into sheet metal.

This reminds me of the old HG Wells short story, 'The Cone' where
precisely the same set of events is described in gory detail. Well
worth a read...
--

"I believe history will be kind to me, since I intend
to write it." - Winston Churchill