Smelter crane accident - video

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How do they clean up something like that?

With great difficulty.
Suggestions: Prybars, power cutters and shovels for starters.
Then add a fork lift for speed and biggie dumpsters for some recycling...

I haven't personally experienced that - but I think the hopefully NOT clean floor
and the shrinking of aluminum when solidifying should help loosening.

There was a similar "spill" one early morning back in the seventies in a foundry not far from where I grew up,
but that was 50 metric tons of red-hot glowing pig iron @ 2000-ish deg F...
Enuff to ruin the coming day's sleep for the whole swing shift.
Put the shop outta commission for two weeks...



From https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%...stransporterna

"The Melt", as the 600 ton cargo train was nicked:



Pic: Roger Lundberg, from https://www.flickr.com/photos/gamla_...n/photostream/



From: https://digitaltmuseum.se/0210180776.../media?slide=0