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Coke ovens are hot, release methane and CO in a combination that's quite combustible.

Get too close to a soaking pit and fall in, by the time they raise the alarm you're dead and charring.

The steel mill my parents and friends' parents worked at had a kind of cemetery with tombstones If a man (they were men as of the last I heard) had died by being splashed by steel from a pour or had fallen into the open hearth they'd cast an ingot, stamp his name and vitals on it, and set it out with the others. It didn't happen often, but it happened. A small portion of the elements that composed the man's body would still be dissolved in the now-frozen steel. (When the steel mill was wiped off the face of the Earth, I don't know what happened to the ingots. Moved to another location? Sold for their metal? Dropped in the Bay? Dunno.)

It was different if there was a death at the rod or rolling mills. There the body would be pretty beat up, but still be a body.