CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — For Don Furko, Aug. 11, 2025, was a normal shift. Until it became the shift he would never forget. At 10:47 a.m., U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh — a sprawling ...
Coke oven gas includes hydrogen, methane, nitrogen and carbon monoxide, and some of it is used as fuel to heat the coke ovens. Coke oven gas is explosive due to high hydrogen content, said Fred Rorick ...
U.S. Steel's Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pa., on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (Quinn Glabicki/Pittsburgh's Public Source via AP) CLAIRTON, Pa. (AP) — For Don Furko, Aug. 11, 2025, was a normal shift.