What caused a deadly explosion at a US Steel plant? New details released.

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1. Working at a coke plant is inherently dangerous but this one is even more so.

Clairton Coke Works, site of deadly explosions, stirs both pride and pain

Brian Doyle remembers the explosion that hurled him to the coke plant’s floor — but little else from that day.

It was a Wednesday — July 14, 2010 — and Doyle, a steamfitters union member and contractor for Power Piping, was inside the Clairton Coke Works getting ready to repair pipes near the coke ovens.

The gas lines were supposed to be shut down. But something went wrong that morning. A blast tore through an array of ovens inside the sprawling U.S. Steel plant.

After the explosion — one of several at the plant in the past 15 years — paramedics rushed Doyle to UPMC McKeesport hospital with a back injury, lots of bruises and a lump on his head that remains today. First-degree burns covered 40% of his body.

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Clairton Coke Works might be one of the most dangerous places on Earth,” Doyle, 56, told TribLive last week. “It’s a bomb. It’s essentially a bomb.”

https://triblive.com/local/regional/clairton-coke-works-site-of-deadly-explosions-stirs-both-pride-and-pain/