CLAIRTON, Pennsylvania — Six months after a series of deadly explosions, US Steel‘s Clairton Coke Works has resumed operations at one of its batteries. The blasts on Aug. 11, 2025, killed two workers and injured several more at the nation’s largest coke manufacturing facility, located in Mon Valley, Pennsylvania.

In a statement, US Steel spokeswoman Amanda Malkowski said the company will restart Battery #13 at its Mon Valley Works Clairton Plant on Thursday.

“The battery has been on hot idle since the August incident to allow for repairs and careful equipment checks. With that work now finished, we’re preparing to safely bring it back into operation,” she told the Washington Examiner in a statement.

The battery is expected to begin........

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