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How factories were made safe

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Angelo Guira was just sixteen years old when he began working in the steel factory. He was a “trough boy,” and his job was to stand at one end of the trough where red-hot steel pipes were dropped. Ev…

x How factories were made safe — LessWrong Best of LessWrong 2021 Economics History Law and Legal systems Progress Studies World Modeling Curated 200 How factories were made safe by jasoncrawford 12th Sep 2021 Linkpost for rootsofprogress.org 22 min read 46 200 Angelo Guira was just sixteen years old when he began working in the steel factory. He was a “trough boy,” and his job was to stand at one end of the trough where red-hot steel pipes were dropped. Every time a pipe fell, he pulled a lever that dumped the pipe onto a cooling bed. He was a small lad, and at first they hesitated to take hi

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