When horrific situations strike in the Pittsburgh area, such like the U.S. Steel Clairton coke plant explosion that killed ...

Allegheny County is boosting air monitoring after a deadly explosion at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, a plant with a ...

Qiyam Ansari was driving to work the morning of Aug. 11 when he felt and saw an explosion occur just down the road in Clairton, Pennsylvania.

The company said pressure likely built up inside the valve, causing it to fail and leading to coke oven gas filling the area, ...

U.S. Steel says it believes a gas valve failure led to the explosion Monday morning at its Clairton Coke Works, in which two ...

U.S. Steel says preparations for a routine maintenance task may have led to an explosion at a U.S. Steel coal-processing ...

The deadly blast at the U.S. Steel facility outside Pittsburgh was just the latest in a series of recent workplace accidents.

Two workers were killed and nearly a dozen were injured while they were preparing for a maintenance project at the Clairton facility.

Timothy Quinn, 39, of East Huntingdon Township, also died in the incident. Ten other people were injured. Three of them are ...