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Explosion at Pittsburgh-area steel plant hurts 15
By JENNIFER C. YATES (AP) – 20 minutes ago
CLAIRTON, Pa. — Authorities say that an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh has injured 15 people, at least one critically.
Allegheny County spokesman Kevin Evanto says a coke oven exploded at United States Steel Corp.'s Clairton Coke Works around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.
He says that 14 workers suffered burns and another suffered chest pains. A West Penn Hospital spokesman says at least one patient is in critical condition and two others being examined.
Aerial television video showed smoke rising from the sprawling plant about 20 miles south of Pittsburgh. A maintenance worker died in an explosion there in September 2009.
Coke is a form of processed coal used in the steelmaking process.
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CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — An oven at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh exploded Wednesday, injuring 15 workers and causing a fire that burned for hours afterward, emergency officials said.
The blast in the coke oven at United States Steel Corp.'s Clairton Coke Works happened around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Allegheny County spokesman Kevin Evanto said.
Fourteen workers suffered burns and another suffered chest pains, Evanto said, but none of the injuries was believed to be life-threatening.
Aerial television video showed smoke rising from the sprawling plant Wednesday. The fire was still burning at midday, Evanto said.
A maintenance worker died at the plant in a September 2009 explosion. A company spokeswoman and a union official said they couldn't immediately comment on Wednesday's explosion.
The Clairton plant is about 20 miles south of Pittsburgh along the west bank of the Monongahela River. U.S. Steel calls it the biggest coke manufacturing facility in the U.S. with production tallies of about 4.7 million tons of coke a year.
Coke, a raw material used in steelmaking, is coal that is baked for a long time at high temperature to remove impurities.
