{"id":100282,"date":"2026-01-30T01:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100282\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:31:08","slug":"explosion-reported-at-plant-in-washington-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100282\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion reported at plant in Washington County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion was reported at a plant in Washington County on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Dispatchers said a call about an explosion at Langeloth Metallurgical Company&#8217;s plant in Smith Township came in around 6:15 p.m. on Thursday. Three people were reportedly injured, according to dispatchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0i8rgrYnCegd2EY6MR6QVcaWFbR4KdELGEugrv5tL4Detw3zW4K6bWDYgLrB2Xignl&amp;id=61563269904071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-absolute=\"true\">In a post on Facebook<\/a>, the township said it wants &#8220;to reassure the community that at this time there are no reported casualties and no immediate risk to the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No other information was released on Thursday night, but some neighbors said that the explosion shook homes in multiple neighborhoods.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Langeloth Metallurgical Company&#8217;s website, the plant produces &#8220;high quality metallurgical products.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An explosion was reported at a plant in Washington County on Thursday evening. Dispatchers said a call about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3891,73,75,74,437],"class_list":["post-100282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-explosion","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-washington-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}