One Of The Hardest Jobs In The World

One Of The Hardest Jobs In The World (HM25E9)

Location: Bethlehem, PA 18015 Northampton County
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N 40° 36.903', W 75° 21.971'

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A Day In The Life: A Tough Job Has Its Rewards

Former steelworkers reflect on the challenges and rewards of their occupation:
"I remember the first day I was on the job and I was like 'Oh my god, this is hell! Smoke and fire, it was just incredible. I almost ran out of there, it was like a dungeon."
- Guillermo Lopez
Coke Works: Millwright
"The rigger shop was next to us, so sometimes the riggers would come through. And they were like the motorcycle gang of Bethlehem Steel. These guys were mean looking, bearded, risk takers..."
- Eric Quimby
No. 2 Machine Shop: Floor Hand
"The best thing about working in the plant was the friendship, the community of the fellow steelworkers, remembering all the good times you had sitting on the lunch benches, sitting around the lunch table with the guys discussing their personal lives..."
- Pete DePietro
Truck Driver
[Photo captions, from left to right, read]
· Worker running a Medart straightener, c. 1900.
· Ronald Meitzler and Elias Richie working the last night of blast furnace operation, November 18, 1995.
· A steelworker repairs a crack with oxygen melting-also known as flame scarfing-in a large press in the Forging Department.
· Cast iron or blast furnace pig iron being lip-poured



into sand molds in the Iron Foundry.
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HM NumberHM25E9
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Placed BySteelStacks
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Date Added Friday, February 9th, 2018 at 7:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18T E 469024 N 4496089
Decimal Degrees40.61505000, -75.36618333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 40° 36.903', W 75° 21.971'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds40° 36' 54.18" N, 75° 21' 58.26" W
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Area Code(s)484, 610
Closest Postal AddressAt or near HMT, Bethlehem PA 18015, US
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