Gas pipeline blast kills worker
From Times Wire Services
An explosion and fire along a gas pipeline killed a worker on an island near Detroit.
The worker was part of a five-man crew preparing to reroute a coke oven gas line through part of a blast furnace line at a facility on Zug Island, a U.S. Steel spokesman said. The other crew members were taken to a hospital for observation, he said.
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