Accidents at The Point: 1990 Explosion
on August 9, 2021
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Blast furnace “L”, or “Big L”, in 1978 after it was finished and ready for work. By Clair Volkening The Explosion In a previous post, I recounted the story of an explosion at Sparrows Point in 1891 which killed four steelworkers. That explosion was one of countless accidents over the mill’s history that injured or killed steelworkers. Now, we move one-hundred years into the future, to 1990, to tell the story […]
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on July 15, 2021
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“Blast Furnace ‘B’ ready for Operation.” The first blast furnace at the Point was constructed in 1890.
By Clair Volkening On Sunday, December 8, 1891, four men were killed and five suffered injuries after an explosion in blast furnace B at Sparrows Point. The night before the explosion, workers had begun “blowing out,” or shutting down, the furnace so that repairs could be made to the firebrick walls and the furnace pipes […]
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