In August, two employees died and several others were injured during a battery explosion at Clairton Coke Works.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board and Hazard Investigation Board has issued interim safety recommendations for U.S. Steel ...

The Clairton Coke Works Plant in the Mon Valley plays an essential role in steelmaking in the United States. The century-old plant was the site of an explosion Monday that killed two people and left ...

U.S. Steel did not follow industry standards in rebuilding facilities that were damaged by the fatal August explosion in ...

Updated: October 7, 2025 at 1:05 PM EDT This story has been corrected to show that maintenance was being performed on a gas isolation valve. The federal board investigating the fatal August explosion ...

A federal safety board investigating last summer's deadly blast at United States Steel's Clairton Coke Works has found that ...

U.S. Steel is restarting one of two batteries damaged by a deadly explosion in August at its Clairton Coke Works. Battery No. 14 will go back online Thursday after about two months on hot idle, the ...

Despite initial pledges of transparency and openness, both US Steel Corporation and the United Steelworkers have remained quiet on the August 11 explosion at the company’s Clairton Coke Works that ...

Carbon monoxide and gas alarms were triggered leading up to a fatal explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works site Aug. 11, according to information released by the U.S. Chemical Safety and ...

The business has been churning out Christmas treats since 1927.

The Shenango Coke Works smokestacks before they were imploded on May 8, 2018. The Shenango coke works on Neville Island, just west of Pittsburgh on the Ohio River, closed down in 2016. Coke is a ...

U.S. Steel plans to restart one of the batteries damaged by the deadly explosion at Clairton Coke Works.