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If it is a bug, it is a strange one, I think it would have been as notable as to come up first in everyone's mind, but generally the metal industry is not all that bugged.
So maybe its a bug but other possibilities first:
Maybe you have iron bars, but they are forbidden or designated for a task which has become suspended.
How did you order the job to be made directly through the workshop or through the manager screen--try both and see if one carries through
Do you have other things you might be using the iron for?
Do other metals work fine?
Sorry if it persists, seems like a tough break, although iron makes subpar weapons anyway

The floorspace (looks like 2 tiles) separating your fortification from the edge seriously blocks line of sight. Move the fortifications and try again?

While building is great, forts that experiment with game aspects can be so rewarding!  Explore ice, build a fort that uses a gauntlet of ice traps, as soon as one pathway is sealed by one trap going off, reroute to another hall of doom, towers out of ice are practically a necessity, bonus points for automatic reset system (would require magma).  Or explore the caverns, breed exotic caverns life into jabber and reacher armies, harvest plump helmet men and train antmen gladiators.  Capture and weaponize forgotten beasts. Just trying for something ridiculous and failing generally makes for an awesome fort

Aquifer+freezing climate+patience= best ice traps set up in the world. Also, my personal favorite is using the drainage aspect to build really convenient dwarf baths, with no or almost no chance of accidental drowning, nor the danger of the f.b. contaminated shallow 3/7 cleaning pool killing all who walk through it.

p.s. consider the terrain-marring holes involved in getting through an aquifier as creative opportunities--they make great pyramid foundations, underground pastures and greenhouses.

If the dwarf iis working, how is this bugged? If they aren't infected just leave them be, if they are make soap. Compared to how bad hospitals were two releases ago, injured dwarves ignoring non crippling injuries are nothin'

I imagine something like a dnd game set in boatmurdered as a city, from which the party doesn't ever leave, for some reason. Assume the chasm as it was is more like a 3-d cavern with an underdark connection.  Classes like soapmaker would probably work as skills or something, and give plot hooks to whoever is developing the story.
 It could totally work:
i.e. elephant attack, followed by quest to resolve tantrum spiral and help someone or other bury their dead before they decay, while there is a goblin ambush in progress. everyone levels up, gets a new axe or whatever, like any other dnd game.

I'm fairly certain ranges don't ever work if there is a pit in the middle, even with ramps. I think they are rather useful myself, and only replaced by a collosus for consistent expert marksdwarf training.

Or alternatively take a long scroll through the (j)obs menu, until you see a suspended bed order, then unsuspend it, but i do think its perfectly fine, only you have no furniture stockpile space, so its sitting there all forgotten.