Furnaces Partially Restored at Gary Works Following Last Week’s Flood

Service has been restored to the largest of the blast furnaces, and a second furnace will be back online shortly, following a water pipe break Nov. 27 that forced U.S. Steel to shut down all three operating furnaces at its Gary Works mill. In an update on Monday, a spokesperson said the third furnace is expected to be restarted later this week. Customers should not be adversely impacted by the disruption in production, the company said.

“On Nov. 27, U.S. Steel reported a service water leak that caused flooding at our Gary Works facility near our blast furnace operations. As a precaution, we proactively stopped the blast furnaces and steel production to protect our people, assets and the environment until the issue was resolved,” the company reported in a statement last week.