(File Photo: Source for Photo: This is the back of the safety helmet worn by a steelworker listening to Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s meeting with media at the Clairton Coke Works, a U.S. Steel plant, in Clairton, Pa., Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Clairton, PA) U.S. Steel and the Salvation Army of Western Pennsylvania are partnering up so they can collect donations to help the families of those that were impacted by the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works plant explosion that occurred in Clairton on August 11th, 2025. This affects the families of the two men that passed away from this incident, which are fifty-two-year-old Steven Menefee of Clairton and thirty-nine-year-old Timothy Quinn of Fitz Henry in Westmoreland County as well as the families of those who got injured in this incident, and the number of those people is at least ten. You can donate for this cause until September 30th, 2025 by going to the link below:

Click here for the link: salvationarmywpa.org/steel

You can also give to this cause by texting “steel” to the number 31333.