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    From Seth Able@RICKSBBS to All on Saturday, August 16, 2025 18:11:18
    In 1871, the need for tons of pig iron to repair the infrastructure in the United States soared. As a result, Colonel James Withers Sloss began to build Sloss Furnaces. According to its official site, the business provided jobs to hundreds of employees. However, the work on blast furnaces was difficult and dangerous, and people started passing from falls into the furnaces.

    By the turn of the century, James "Slag" Wormwood, a ruthless foreman who took huge risks to boost productivity, had made things much worse. Nearly 50 workers lost their lives at Sloss during his time there, and numerous others were hurt in horrible incidents. His employees allegedly hurled him into the furnace as vengeance in 1906. Some say that even walking today at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, one may still hear Slag's voice yelling, "Get back to work!" and witness other otherworldly occurrences.

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