An explosion rocked Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor steel mill in northwest Indiana in US producing a plume of reddish brown smoke visible miles away, though no one was injured. Cleveland-Cliffs spokeswoman Ms Patricia Persico said that the blast took place in a slag pit at the mill along the Lake Michigan lakeshore in Porter County. She said “There was an incident with the site’s slag pit. The fire has been extinguished. There are no injuries.”Steel slag is a molten liquid by product of the steelmaking process and it is dumped into pits where it solidifies as it cools. The explosion was caused after silica waste combined with moisture in a slag pit and caused a chemical reaction.The Burns Harbor mill is Cleveland-Cliffs second-largest US facility. The fully-integrated mill operates two blast furnaces that can produce nearly 5 million net tons of raw steel. It primarily produces hot-rolled, cold-rolled and hot-dip galvanized steel products.
An explosion rocked Cleveland-Cliffs Burns Harbor steel mill in northwest Indiana in US producing a plume of reddish brown smoke visible miles away, though no one was injured. Cleveland-Cliffs spokeswoman Ms Patricia Persico said that the blast took place in a slag pit at the mill along the Lake Michigan lakeshore in Porter County. She said “There was an incident with the site’s slag pit. The fire has been extinguished. There are no injuries.”Steel slag is a molten liquid by product of the steelmaking process and it is dumped into pits where it solidifies as it cools. The explosion was caused after silica waste combined with moisture in a slag pit and caused a chemical reaction.The Burns Harbor mill is Cleveland-Cliffs second-largest US facility. The fully-integrated mill operates two blast furnaces that can produce nearly 5 million net tons of raw steel. It primarily produces hot-rolled, cold-rolled and hot-dip galvanized steel products.
