ABSTRACT
The General Purpose Crane (GP) driver had driven over a pot reconstruction operation in line 1 with a full crucible of metal. And miscalculated.
The best part of two metric tons of metal had spilt on the hydraulics of the Hitachi digger. The fire raged up the digger and into the roof. Beneath it, the potline bus bar was starting to warp on the operating floor, and there was molten aluminum in the basement below the pot being excavated.
