U.S. Steel, the Company That Built America, Faces Its Age

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Last year, a sprinkler pipe at one plant fell from the ceiling, sparking a major fire. Aging facilities bedevil U.S. Steel.

Last Christmas Eve, a sprinkler pipe at a United States Steel Corp. plant south of Pittsburgh fell from the ceiling in a building at the 120-year-old complex. Within minutes, an area the size of a football field was engulfed in flame.

The falling pipe severed another delivering oil to a compressor, a machine sucking highly combustible gas through the plant. The leaking oil caught fire, the compressor began to vibrate violently and a flood of gas from coking-coal ovens was ignited, according to a 59-page report on the accident...

 

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Coming out for Commie steel.

The USA destroyed the steel industry, buildings, equipment is old and it will take work to get it running and up to date

THis is the same thing that's wrong with the rest of America! All of the infrastructure is falling apart because the profits have been sucked up by the greedy corporate owners and stockholders and government cronies. And now they all want more to fix it!

But the tarriffs?

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