A deadly explosion at a coke manufacturing facility last August was the product of improper maintenance, inadequate siting and decades of ignored safety concerns, according to a federal investigation released Monday.<\/p>\n
The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board\u2019s report<\/a> comes one year after an explosion<\/a> at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works facility near Pittsburgh killed two workers and injured 11 others.<\/p>\n \u201cThis deadly incident was the result of an ad hoc informal procedure, poor facility siting, and an ineffective process safety management system at the Clairton facility,\u201d CSB Chair Steve Owens said in a statement. \u201cIt should never have happened.\u201d<\/p>\n Workers at the facility had spent years using high-pressure water to clean valves without a written standard procedure. Pressurized water increased beyond the valve\u2019s capacity, causing it to burst, which released toxic, flammable coke oven gas that soon ignited and exploded.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deadly explosion at a coke manufacturing facility last August was the product of improper maintenance, inadequate siting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-263407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263407","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=263407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}