steam pipe

In April 1908, a defective steam pipe burst at the plant, hurling two Georges — George Tucker, chief engineer, and George Love, oiler — 25 feet to the concrete floor below.

In the Midway-Sunset field, the dusty foothills are covered by a thicket of steam pipes, power lines and pump jacks quietly bobbing up and down, pulling oil from the ground.

On a recent weekday, Noerr brought his black, 425-horsepower pickup to a stop on a two-lane road flanked by oil rigs and steam pipes.

The workers — one a Navy veteran who was employed by the Veterans Affairs health care system and the other a contractor — were replacing a leaking steam pipe, officials said.

I set the can on a steam pipe until the water evaporated, leaving bits of solid food in the bottom.