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[Texican72]

I remember when that plant employed over 7000 and ran 24/7/365.

[IMR 4350]

In the late 70s and into the 80s US Steel ran about 15%-25% reject rate on their pipe.

I hated inspecting that junk.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“We’ve gone through cycles like this before,”

Cycles? When Lone Star would fire up it’s electric arc furnaces our power plant 300 miles away with it’s auto controls, would go into fits! We were the cheapest operating power plant so we caught the load!

All night long we would fight temperatures, pressures to keep up with the furnaces and load!

Then they would shut down the arc furnaces and we would have to fight to keep the power plant from bottoming out on load while the boiler pressures suddenly skyrocketed!

When our midnight shift ended we were exhausted! The only thing worse than the arc furnaces was when we had a really bad ice storm and fought to keep the unit on line.

[Stentor]

In an email, U.S. Steel spokeswoman Sarah Cassella emphasized that that cuts are intended to be temporary and not a permanent shutdown.

My temporary layoff from US Steel Fairless works began in Fall 1974 and hasn't ended yet.