No injuries, production impact from incident at Gary Works: USS

What a local media report described as an “explosion” on Friday night at U.S. Steel’s Gary Works in Northwest Indiana has not disrupted production or resulted in any injuries, that company said.

“A transformer at our Gary Works facility had an electrical failure. This activated a system to limit pressure, which created the sound,” a spokesman for the Pittsburgh-based steelmaker told SMU over the weekend.

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Michael Cowden is editor-in-chief for Steel Market Update. Cowden has covered the steel industry since 2007. He specializes in flat-rolled steel but has also reported on steel long products, steel pipe and tube, and aluminum. Before joining SMU, Cowden held reporting jobs at Fastmarkets AMM in Chicago, the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, and the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. He has also worked as a copy editor and in marketing at the University of Chicago Press. Cowden has a BA in English from the University of Chicago and an MSJ journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Contact him at michael@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7872.