Bethlehem Steel BOF retiree suicide

During Tom's tenure at Bethlehem Steel, a recently retired employee returned to the plant and dove into the BOF molten steel bath; operators saw the body spread-eagled on the surface via TV monitor. The standard practice was to "bury" one ingot from that heat.

When I was at Bethlehem Steel, there was one guy who had just retired, and I guess he couldn't really handle retirement. He came back to the plant one day and he dived into the bath of molten steel in the BOF. They were sitting there waiting to get chemistry back, and they saw a poof on the TV screen, and they looked in and they could see this body spread-eagled on the molten bath of steel, floating on it. They float really well. The density of steel's much heavier. He had committed suicide by diving in there. So what do they do? They'll bury one ingot when they tap the steel.