Monday, April 10, 2006
Explosion strikes AK Steel
AK Steel is the cite of a lockout that's gone on several weeks now.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Three explosions late Sunday night at AK Steel shook homes and buildings for miles, sent a mushroom cloud 150 feet into the air and injured three employees.
Pieces of red-hot slag ignited 15 to 20 small fires, damaging the roof of a building, two trailers, a dumpster and a pickup truck, the fire chief said.
“All I saw was this huge ball at first,� said union employee Glenn Reliford. “I’ve worked here 16 years and this was 10 times louder than anything I’ve heard here. It was deafening.�
And from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
One worker suffered burns, another was treated for smoke inhalation and a third sprained an ankle while helping extinguish one of the fires late Sunday, AK Steel spokesman Alan McCoy said.
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Three explosions late Sunday night at AK Steel shook homes and buildings for miles, sent a mushroom cloud 150 feet into the air and injured three employees.
Pieces of red-hot slag ignited 15 to 20 small fires, damaging the roof of a building, two trailers, a dumpster and a pickup truck, the fire chief said.
“All I saw was this huge ball at first,� said union employee Glenn Reliford. “I’ve worked here 16 years and this was 10 times louder than anything I’ve heard here. It was deafening.�
And from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
One worker suffered burns, another was treated for smoke inhalation and a third sprained an ankle while helping extinguish one of the fires late Sunday, AK Steel spokesman Alan McCoy said.
