Overview

• Two workers were confirmed dead and about ten others were treated or hospitalized after multiple explosions ripped through the plant’s battery-area on Aug. 11.
• Multi-agency search-and-rescue operations concluded this week, with U.S. Steel employees and first responders pulling survivors from beneath collapsed structures.
• U.S. Steel reports that affected coke-oven batteries have been shut down and gas lines secured, stabilizing the plant’s infrastructure.
• Authorities lifted a one-mile indoor advisory after air-quality monitors detected no exceedances of soot or sulfur dioxide.
• Environmental and community groups have called for a full independent review of plant safety following the June partnership between U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel.