One person is dead, another is unaccounted for, and at least 10 are injured following an explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh.
An explosion rocked the Clairton Coke Works on Monday morning in the Monongahela valley, a steelmaking hub. Photos on local news outlets showed smoke emanating from the blackened facility, where emergency workers sprayed water on the smoldering site and worked to rescue victims.
The Trump administration plans to roll back safeguards against industrial accidents while also seeking to ease air pollution regulations on the industry. The facility has a history of air pollution violations.
The coking factory, the largest in the country, operates under U.S. Steel about 10 miles south of Pittsburgh. Almost 1,300 people work at the plant. Coke is used as blast furnace fuel by the dwindling number of steel plants that turn iron ore into finished steel.
