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 riverside industrial ...
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 ...
The family of Timothy Quinn is pursuing legal action after his death in the Clairton Coke Works explosion last summer. The filing of a civil lawsuit lists Nippon Steel, MPW Industrial Services Inc., ...
The sister of a man killed in an explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works is suing Nippon Steel and others, alleging myriad safety failures that culminated in the deadly blast that tore through ...