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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