Few Pittsburgh-Area Steelworkers Maintain Blast Furnaces.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News | July 10, 2001 | Copyright

By Len Boselovic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 10--If they were animals, blast furnaces -- towering cauldrons of steel and brick in which beats the heart of Big Steel -- would be on the endangered species list.

There are just 33 of them left in the United States and two in Pennsylvania, both near Pittsburgh. Forty years ago, U.S. Steel had 23 blast furnaces alone in Pennsylvania, and more than 200 were operating across the country.

Back then, maintaining the furnaces, where iron ore is converted to liquid ...

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