Hydraulic fluid spilled from Braeburn Alloy Steel Mill into the Allegheny River; containment efforts successful.

Hydraulic fluid spilled along the river bank in Lower Burrell outside of the Braeburn Alloy Steel Plant around 3 p.m. Chief ...

Coroner Tim Carson said Nicholas A. Ganter, 29, died in the crash. He was driving a Chevrolet pickup truck traveling from Lower Burrell. The coroner’s report said Ganter left the right side of ...

THERE NOW WITH AN UPDATE FROM INVESTIGATORS. THE INCIDENT UNDER INVESTIGATION BY POLICE AND THE COMPANY’S OWNER, LLOYD GEO CARLSON, THE VICE PRESIDENT, TELLS ME THAT THEY ARE AWARE OF AN ...

One of the critically injured people was flown by helicopter to an area trauma center, Lower Burrell Fire Chief Brennan Sites said. Jan. 22—Two people were critically injured in an explosion ...

LOWER BURRELL, Pa. — Two people were taken to hospitals afer a reported furnace explosion at a steel plant in Westmoreland County. Emergency dispatchers confirm to Channel 11 that crews were ...

These accidents also are extremely traumatic for co-workers. Some mills have developed practices or rituals in the event of such occurrences. In the 1970s, a resident of Lower Burrell was working ...

The crash occurred on the morning of Nov. 20 ... was crossing the Tarentum Bridge at 7 a.m. on her way from her home in Lower Burrell to Eat’n Park in Natrona Heights, where she worked as ...

EMERGENCY CREWS NOW TASKED WITH CLEANING UP THOUSANDS OF GALLONS OF OIL THAT SPILLED ALMOST TWO MILES INTO THE ALLEGHENY RIVER THIS AFTERNOON FROM THE BRAEBURN STEEL MILL. THE SUBSTANCE WAS ...