From the Richmond Dispatch, 1/13/1884, p. 4, c. 2

PIERCED BY A RED-HOT BAR.
A Tredegar Workman Killed by a Bar Shoved Through the Calf of His Leg.

Yesterday afternoon Carter Jones, a colored laborer at the Tredegar Works, was run through the calf of one leg by a bar of red-hot iron, receiving injuries from which he soon afterwards died.

Jones had left off work, but had come back into a part of the establishment where long bars of iron were being rolled out for the spike-machine.

The roller runs the bar out, and men with tongs guide it to its destination on the ground for cooling. Jones, whose presence was not known to the other workmen, was caught in a position where he could not retreat and where the bar could not be managed to save him, and it pierced his leg and burned it nearly off.

Doctors were at once summoned, and did all they could for him.

He was put in the city ambulance to be conveyed to the Almshouse Hospital, but died before he reached there. He was forty-six years of age, had been long employed at the Tredegar, and was a worthy man.

He resided at No. 317 ½ Arch street.

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