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Stephen Starr in Braddock, Pennsylvania

Nippon Steel takeover doesn’t mean safer, cleaner conditions, US workers and residents say

steam coming from a building
US Steel's Clairton Coke Works in Clairton, Pennsylvania, on 9 February 2026. Photograph: Quinn Glabicki/AP

It was two days before Father’s Day, and Trisha Quinn was wondering how her six, 12 and 17-year-old nieces and nephews would handle the first of many without their dad.

Timothy Quinn, 39, worked at the Clairton Coke Works plant south of Pittsburgh, one of US Steel’s biggest production sites and the largest of its kind in the western hemisphere, for 18 years. Last August, he and a colleague, Steven Menefee, were killed there in an explosion.

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