Workers on the floor at Scot Forge in Clinton, spend hours each day working within inches of metal that can reach temperatures as high at 2300 degrees.
Workers on the floor at Scot Forge in Clinton, spend hours each day working within inches of metal that can reach temperatures as high at 2300 degrees.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
Jon Folk slugs down a bottle of water as he works on the floor at Scot Forge in Clinton. Folk's job has him close to re-hot metal constantly and although he says he doesn't really keep track, he must drink at least a gallon of water a day.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
Jon Folk uses his hand to shield his face while he cleans pieces of scale away from a piece of yellow-hot metal being formed at Scot Forge in Clinton. Metal freh from the furnace can be as hot as 2300 degrees and Folk and his co-workers spend much of their days only inches away from it.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
Louie Schnack, right, uses his body to try and shield his co-worker Mike Clowes from at least some of the heat pouring off a piece of yellow-hot metal. Clowes was using a metal bar and the press to scribe contour marks into the metal as a part is shaped at Scot Forge in Clinton.
Photo By: Bill Olmsted
Using metal scrappers, workers at Scot Forge in Clinton push firey flakes of metal away from around a huge press. The company forges machine parts from chunks of metal heated to 2300 degrees and many of it's workers toil in close proximity to that heat.
