Near the wharf, Renee Hough, a utility technician in charge of loading coke, sat in the cab of the plant’s screening station when the explosion ripped through the air, blinding her in black dust. “My ...

CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — For Don Furko, Aug. 11, 2025, was a normal shift. Until it became the shift he would never forget. At 10:47 a.m., U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh — a sprawling ...

HEMPFIELD TOWNSHIP AND DIORIO, PITTSBURGH’S ACTION NEWS FOUR. OKAY. AND THANK YOU. AND ANOTHER LAWSUIT HAS BEEN FILED AGAINST U.S. STEEL AND NIPPON STEEL IN CONNECTION WITH LAST AUGUST EXPLOSION AT ...

U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pa., on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. On Aug. 11, 2025, an explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh — a 392-acre riverside industrial ...

The sister of a man killed in last year’s explosion at the Clairton Coke Works has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Timothy Quinn is one of two men who died in the explosion on Aug. 11 that sent 10 ...

U.S. Steel is facing new fines levied by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as a result of findings that shed new light on why a valve ruptured at its Clairton Coke Plant in August 2025 ...

Near the wharf, Renee Hough, a utility technician in charge of loading coke, sat in the cab of the plant’s screening station when the explosion ripped through the air, blinding her in black dust. “My ...