An explosion which occurred at 9 30 a.m. today at a US Steel Coke Works outside of Pittsburgh has left 15 workers injured.
The explosion occurred at U.S. Steel Corporation’s Clairton Plant, the largest coke manufacturing plant in the US. A cause for the explosion has yet to be determined.
Most of the injured suffered burns, with 2 of the injured in critical condition.
According to the Post-Gazette, this is the second explosion at the Clairton facility since last September, when a blast in one of two control rooms killed one man and injured another.
More on this story as it becomes available.
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