FURNACE EXPLODES.
23 WORKMEN INJURED. MOLTEN METAL ESCAPES. UNIQUE OCCURRENCE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. September 7, 11.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, September 7. A blast furnace at the Port Kembla steel works exploded yesterday. Twenty-three workmen were Injured, three of them seriously. Hundreds of tons of bubbling molten metal shot from the gigantic furnace and flowed over the adjoining railway line, forming into sheets of iron which were cut away afterwards by oxyacotylene machines and then shifted by crane. It is considered miraculous that the workmen escaped so luckily.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17501, 7 September 1928, Page 7
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