Workplace Horror Stories
MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories
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Turning a Boiler Off at a Power Plant Is a Bad Idea
Antonio's day started out like any other. But just a couple of hours into his shift, two fairly significant issues arose simultaneously inside of unit two. In the boiler, the slag that was building up had somehow created a sort of plug over that man sized hole where the slag was supposed to dump into the water chamber. And so as more and more slag was being created as the ash melted, it wasn't draining into that chamber. The safe way to fix these two blockages would be to start by turning off unit twos boiler. However, turning a boiler off at a power plant is mly expensive.
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