Steel mill workers at skull drop photograph   Save
Republic Steel Corporation Audiovisual Collection YHCIL MSS0192
Description: Photograph of unidentified steel mill workers. Skull, or scull, was the steel which solidified on the inside surface of the ladle. Periodically, this material needed to be removed. The workers pictured were known as skull crackers or skull breakers, terms derived from their responsibility for removing the skull from the ladles. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: YHC_MSS192_B01F011_03
Subjects: Steel Industry and trade; Republic Steel Corporation--Ohio; Furnaces
Places: Ohio