Nippon Steel takeover doesn’t mean safer, cleaner conditions, US workers and residents say

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Families in Pennsylvania report that the takeover of Nippon Steel has not resulted in safer or cleaner working conditions at local mills, including the Clairton Coke Works plant where two workers died last year in an explosion. Community members remain concerned about promised safety investments.

Pennsylvania families note promised investment has yet to deliver safer mills or cleaner air in the Mon Valley It was two days before Father’s Day, and Trisha Quinn was wondering how her six, 12 and 17-year-old nieces and nephews would handle the first of many without their dad. Timothy Quinn, 39, worked at the Clairton Coke Works plant south of Pittsburgh, one of US Steel’s biggest production sites and the largest of its kind in the western hemisphere, for 18 years. Last August, he and colleague, Steven Menefee, were killed there in an explosion. Continue reading...