(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) The wife of one of the two men who died from the August 11th, 2025 explosion at the U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works plant outside of Pittsburgh has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Steel and Nippon Steel. The wife of fifty-two-year-old Steven Menefee of Clairton recently filed the lawsuit in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas to sue for a wrongful death. The family of thirty-nine-year-old Timothy Quinn of Fitz Henry of Westmoreland County, who was the other man that died in this explosion last year, also filed a lawsuit against Nippon Steel last week. Both complaints allege that the explosion at the 13-14 Coke Battery transfer area was caused by the rupture of an 18-inch cast-iron valve, which released coke oven gas into the area, which then ignited.