Two of the dead and 10 injuries in the explosion of the Clarton Steel Factory

A second person died after an explosion was torn at a steel factory in Pennsylvania on Monday.

The body was discovered after a search process that spanned the evening at the American Clarton site outside Pittsburgh.

Local police confirmed earlier that another person had died and 10 others were injured in a major explosion that destroyed part of the factory.

An order that directs the residents inside a radius with one mile from the site to keep their windows and their doors closed to the concerns of air pollution resulting from the resulting fire that was raised on Monday evening. The cause of the explosion and the ongoing investigation has not been confirmed.

Five of the injured are in critical but stable condition, according to the American BBC partner, while the rest was released from the hospital. There are no other workers missing.

The factory is the largest Cook operation in North America, located about 15 miles (24 km) South Pittsburgh.

One of the men who were killed by his family was known as Timothy Quinn, 39, according to a CBS company. His sister, Trisha, told the correspondents that he was the father of three children from Fitz Henry in the nearby Westmoreland province.

The second dead person was not identified.

Earlier, Governor Josh Shapiro posted on social media that the state’s emergency management and police services had been published in the factory.

Soon after the explosion, American Senator John Vitirman wrote on X that he was at the scene and witnessed “active search and rescue.”

The factory is a main product for coke, which is coal -based fuel used in steel production. About 1,300 employees working in the facility, according to the United States steel.

David Bourt, President and CEO of US Steel, said in a statement that the company “is working closely with the relevant authorities to investigate the cause of the accident.”

Correspondents at the press conference later told the factory that the factory was “stable”, but “still an active investigation.”

“It is just a sad day for Clarton,” Mayor Richard Latanzee told the BBC and CBS.

Clarton Coke Works, which has been subjected to pollution fears throughout its history and had to pay millions of dollars of fines, penalties and settlements in recent years.

The factory owner, the United States Steel, was fined about $ 2 million (1.5 million pounds) last year before The Ministry of Health in Achd Province (Achd) To address problems and equipment with coke ovens.

Achd also fined $ 2.2 million in 2023 to overcome the standards of Pennsylvania State for hydrogen sulfide emissions from the Clarton factory, and ordered them to provide officials with a plan to comply with the state standards.

In 2022, health officials in Pennsylvania fined him with $ 4.7 million of steel after it was found that the factory did not use the pollution control device to push it to coke.