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Posted on 08/11/2025 9:51:20 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
Rescue crews raced to save multiple people trapped beneath the rubble after an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh on Monday, an official said.
The blast happened just before 11 a.m. at the Clairton Coke Works.
Abigail Gardner, director of communications for Allegheny County, told The Associated Press there are no confirmed fatalities yet.
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Odd timing..................
John Fetterman lives nearby was in front of the cameras at the scene shortly afterwards.
Painted a picture of a serious situation.
Some people might think “sabotage” ...
Are those people paranoid?
Almost certainly an accident. I worked in a mill near that site for a few years. Lots of working-class Hunkies* (including me). No radicals. Someone handing out commie literature would meet with an “accident” in a dark corner of the mill.
But that was years ago. Since then, DEI. So I can’t be 100% sure of today.
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* Awhile back, I got yelled at here for using that term. It’s (usually) no insult to those of us of Hungarian descent. Heck, there was even a local publication called the Mill Hunk Herald.
It happened at a coke plant, and coal dust is notoriously explosive.
Yes, combustible but the dust gives it a very high surface area for oxidation.
Accident. That’s a very dangerous business.
There is a movie from 1944 called “An American Romance”.
The entire movie has the best in depth explanation of the steel industry from mining to finished product I’ve ever seen. The “romance” is an immigrant who arrives with nothing and sees America as a place he can do anything.
It ends with this spectacular scene of actual B-17 assembly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPW1L9jUGSw
Didn’t U.S. Steel recently get sold to Nippon Steel...?
My dad and brother worked in a steel mill - anecdotally a very dangerous place to work.
Impressive.
If we put our minds to it how many drones could we turn out in a minute?
If we put our minds to it how many drones could we turn out in a minute?
Where will the chips come from?
TSMC in Arizona...
Good to know.
> It happened at a coke plant, and coal dust is notoriously explosive. <
I just got done talking to a friend of mine who lives near the plant. His sources tell him a battery exploded. That could ignite coal dust, as you noted.
By “battery”, it could have been a battery, a transformer, or a capacitor. Or it could simply be wrong initial information.
Hmmm...
Steel plants are now in the same target basket as food, chemical, and petroleum processing plants???
Making coke produces some pretty dangerous byproducts. These include coal tar, benzene, toluene, xylene, naphthalene, ammonia, and ammonium sulfate. A leaky fitting, a little too much heat or pressure, and most of these things go up in a pretty rapid combustion cycle. Like all refining processes it’s inherently dangerous. Safety first, last, and always.
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