History Main / SteelMill

** In the prequel ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' the Sionis Steel Mill appears again. However, it is not active, merely acting as a front for Black Mask's drug production facility. [[spoiler: Batman comes here to rescue Black Mask from the Joker, fighting and defeating Copperhead in the process.]]

* The ''[=TNT=]/Evilution'' half of ''[[{{VideoGame/Doom}} Final Doom]]'' features a level inside what could pass as a steel mill, aptly named 'Mill', with hydraulic anvils, super-hot liquid that occasionally burns through a Radiation Shielding Suit and what barely passes for the top of an electric arc furnace.

* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' in some of the game's Zangief's stage take's place in one.

* ''Series/SesameStreet'' has used [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNInmrPmug8 this clip]] of a steel I-Beam being forged when an episode is [[BroughtToYouByTheLetterS Brought To You By The Letter "I"]]. It's memorablly scary for many when they first saw it as a child.

* The steelworks of Birmingham were the inspiration for many classic Music/BlackSabbath riffs: band members would lie in bed and listen to the night shift at work, composing rhthyms around the regular noises of the drop-hammers and other heavy machinery-- quite literally Heavy Metal.

* VideoGame/MaxPayne blasts through one of these in the third act of his first game. Apart from the other dangerous elements of the Cold Steel Foundry, he also has to deal with hired mercenaries and laser tripmines because it's a front for production of Valkyr [[spoiler:as well as having a military bunker underneath the plant.]]

* RealLife steel mills are the TropeMakers for DangerousWorkplace. On the other hand, the immensely hazardous occupational conditions and the hard physical work are usually compensated with very high pay.

* The climax of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' takes place in one, of course.

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* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' add-on "The Pitt" gives up what may be the world's last functional steel mill, staffed by slaves in loincloths and sadistic criminals as their foreman. The leader, Ashur, hopes to use the industry provided by the mill to build a self-sufficient empire.

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* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'', Phil tells the kids about a haunted train that supposedly takes unwitting passengers to {{Hell}} at midnight. Naturally, the kids check it out for themselves. It turns out that the train ''is'' real, but it goes to a steel mill (presumably to pick up or drop off workers and/or supplies), not hell. [[spoiler: But there ''is'' also an actual haunted train driven by the ghost of a crazy engineer.]]

At best, this may be a BigLabyrinthineBuilding - the Severstal mill at Magnitogorsk, Russia, spreads ''twelve kilometers'' along the bank of the Ural River. RealLife steel mills are usually hangar-like, with large open spaces inside, [[CaptainObvious due to the need to move around heavy equipment]]. At worst, it is a true NightmarishFactory. Its DangerousWorkplace nature is often displayed by a large [[XDaysSince X Days Since Last Accident]] billboard.[[note]]"Accident" usually refers to a significant bodily injury in this case, such as a broken bone or severe burn. Smaller injuries aren't counted.[[/note]] More recent works can depict these mills in a shut-down, boarded-up state to indicate a DyingTown atmosphere.

* The genre HeavyMetal has gotten its name from Sheffield, UK, where the genre was born. Sheffield was the centre of UK steel production in the 1960s and 1970s.

At best, a SteelMill may be a BigLabyrinthineBuilding - the Severstal mill at Magnitogorsk, Russia, spreads ''twelve kilometers'' along the bank of the Ural River. RealLife steel mills are usually hangar-like, with large open spaces inside, [[CaptainObvious due to the need to move around heavy equipment]]. At worst, it is a true NightmarishFactory. Its DangerousWorkplace nature is often displayed by a large [[XDaysSince X Days Since Last Accident]] billboard.[[note]]"Accident" usually refers to a significant bodily injury in this case, such as a broken bone or severe burn. Smaller injuries aren't counted.[[/note]] More recent works can depict these mills in a shut-down, boarded-up state to indicate a DyingTown atmosphere.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer, worried about Bart's manliness after interactions with a gay shop-keeper, takes him to one of these mills to show him examples of masculinity. It backfired big time as it quickly [[CrowningMomentOfFunny converts into a gay disco.]]

At best, a SteelMill may be a BigLabyrinthineBuilding - the Severstal mill at Magnitogorsk, Russia, spreads ''twelve kilometers'' along the bank of the Ural River. RealLife steel mills are usually hangar-like, with large open spaces inside, [[CaptainObvious due to the need to move around heavy equipment]]. At worst, it is a true NightmarishFactory. Its DangerousWorkplace nature is often displayed by a large [[XDaysSince X Days Since Last Accident]] billboard.[[note]]"Accident" usually refers to a significant bodily injury in this case, such as a broken bone or severe burn. Smaller injuries aren't counted.[[/note]]

->''You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire.''

* Tony Iommi worked in a Sheffield steel mill before going HeavyMetal on Music/BlackSabbath fulltime.

* RobertDeNiro worked as a steelworker under an assumed name before filming the ''Deer Hunter'', to get a grip of the steelworker's daily life.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' series has Flame Mammoth's stage as well as Burn Rooster's stage, both of which are reploid/mechaniloid recycling plants. Several of the scrapped robots in the former are ''still functioning'' as they're squashed by a compactor. Naturally, both of them are the fire-themed stages in their games, and Flame Mammoth and Burn Rooster are the [[PlayingWithFire fire-using Mavericks]].

A steel mill is one of the closest approximations of HellOnEarth, if [[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]] is used as a yardstick. Since metal work requires extremely high temperatures, a steel mill is a [[BigLabyrinthineBuilding humongous maze]] of [[EternalEngine eerie machinery]], [[HellFire fiery furnaces]], extreme temperatures, [[LavaPit molten metal]], [[DeadlyGas poisonous gases]], foul smells, deafening sounds and, most of all, [[NoOSHACompliance heavy objects]] [[AccordionMan falling from height]] [[SquashedFlat when least expected]].

Mini-mills have superceded traditional integrated mills rapidly, and they are important scrap recyclers. The electric arc furnace can be considered as a [[HellFire man-made lightninig]]. They are usually located in places, where scrap can be easily obtained and where is an abundance of cheap electricity. A mini-mill consists of smelting works (based on electric arc furnace) and rolling mill.

At best, a SteelMill may be a BigLabyrinthineBuilding - the Severstal mill at Magnitogorsk, Russia, spreads ''twelve kilometers'' along the river Ural bank. RealLife steel mills are usually hangar-like, with large open spaces inside, [[CaptainObvious due to the need to move around heavy equipment]]. At worst, it is a true NightmarishFactory. Its DangerousWorkplace nature is often displayed by a large [[XDaysSince X Days Since Last Accident]] billboard.[[note]]"Accident" usually refers to a significant bodily injury in this case, such as a broken bone or severe burn. Smaller injuries aren't counted.[[/note]]

* The steelworks of Birmingham were the inspiration for many classic Music/BlackSabbath riffs: band members would lie in bed and listen to the night shift at work, composing rhthyms around the regular noises of the drop-hammers and other heavy machinery. quite lieterally Heavy Metal.

* The steelworks of Birmingham were the inspiration for many classic BlackSabbath riffs: band members would lie in bed and listen to the night shift at work, composing rhthyms around the regular noises of the drop-hammers and other heavy machinery. quite lieterally Heavy Metal.

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A steel mill is one of the closest approximations of HellOnEarth, if [[DivineComedy Dante's Inferno]] is used as a yardstick. Since metal work requires extremely high temperatures, a steel mill is a [[BigLabyrinthineBuilding humongous maze]] of [[EternalEngine eerie machinery]], [[HellFire fiery furnaces]], extreme temperatures, [[LavaPit molten metal]], [[PoisonGas poisonous gasses]], foul smells, deafening sounds and, most of all, [[NoOSHACompliance heavy objects]] [[AccordionMan falling from height]] [[SquashedFlat when least expected]].