Ap reported that two steel mill workers weren't seriously injured after a crane they were working on collapsed during a storm in Maryland.

Lt Pierre Thode with the Baltimore County Fire Department said that the men climbed down a ladder under their own power around 4:45 PM. The crane went down shortly after 4 PM. The men were working to unload materials from a barge.

Mr Thode added that the men weren't pinned down in the crane, but their ladder gave way when it collapsed, leaving them with no way down. A fire truck with a long ladder came to the rescue. The men were not taken to hospitals.

The collapse occurred at the Sparrows Point steel mill, which is owned by Russian steelmaker OAO Severstal