Title:
Plugging the Cinder Notch at the Campbell Works' Cast House

Description:
A steelworker plugs the cinder notch in the cast house at the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company's Campbell Works, East Youngstown (Campbell), Ohio, ca. 1930-1939. Workers first flushed the slag out of the blast furnace at the cinder notch. Then they used a long steel bar called a bott to plug the cinder notch. At the end of the bar was the cinder notch plug, or the monkey bott. Later, at the end of the monkey bott was an oxygen lance. The worker operating the monkey bott was called a Keeper.

Creator:
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company

Creation Date:
ca. 1930-1939

Place:
East Youngstown (Campbell) (Ohio)

Media Type:
Photographic Print (Black and White)

Collection Number:
YHC MSS 0140

Collection Title:
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Audiovisual Archives

Subject:
Campbell (Ohio)
Mahoning County (Ohio)
Manufacturing industries -- Ohio
Steel industry and trade -- Ohio
Blast furnaces -- Ohio

Image Number:
AL05610

Copyright:
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