Coke plant coal hammer   Save
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Description: This photograph depicts a coal hammer used in a coke plant. The caption below reads, "NO1 V NOTCH HAMMER MADE FROM OPEN HEARTH STEEL AND HEAT TREATED BEFORE BEING PLACED IN SERVICE". Coke plants burn coal to remove its impurities and form it into coke, which is then used as a fuel in blast furnaces to make pig iron. This is the first step of the steelmaking process. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F66_004
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry and trade--Accidents; Coke plants
Places: Youngstown Sheet & Tube Audiovisual Archives