(File Photo: Source for Photo: The Clairton Coke Works, a U.S. Steel coking plant, is seen Monday, Aug 11, 2025, in Clairton, Penn. (AP Photo/Gene Puskar)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Clairton, PA) U.S. Steel is preparing to restart Battery 14 at the U.S. Steel Coke Works plant in Clairton because of the explosion that occurred there on August 11th, 2025 that killed two men and injured at least ten people. This battery has been on hot idle since the explosion, and that means that it is not making any product. U.S. Steel confirmed that the repair work on Battery 14 is complete now and operations on it can continue. Final safety checks are set to be performed today with startup expected to begin this afternoon.