Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor steel plant
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Cleveland-Cliffs Indiana Harbor steel plant is a steel plant in East Chicago, Indiana, United States.[1]
Location
The map below shows the location of the steel plant in Riverdale, Illinois, United States.
Background
Worker Safety
In July 2020, a 71-year old worker died at ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor when they were struck by a coil tractor.[2][3]
On April 2, 2019, a 49-year old man was killed at the steel plants raw materials yard when the engine he was operating struck a rail car on an adjacent track.[2]
In 2017, one worker was killed by injuries from a crane accident at the steel plant and another worker was killed in a buggy accident at the plant.[2]
A total of 393 steelworkers have died on the job at the ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor steel plant.[2]
Plant Details
- Private/State ownership: private[1]
- Parent company: Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.[1]
- Owner: Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.[1]
- Alternative plant names: ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor steel plant (predecessor), ArcelorMittal East Chicago, Inland Steel (predecessor), LTV Steel (predecessor)
- Location: 3210 Watling St., East Chicago, IN 46312, United States[4]
- GPS Coordinates: 41.669553, -87.438429 (exact)
- Plant status: operating[4]
- Production capacities (thousand tonnes per annum):
- Production (thousand tonnes per annum):
- Crude steel: 4500 (2019, BOF)[7]
- Production (thousand tonnes per annum):
- Iron: 3145 (BF, 2019)[8]
- Steel product category: flat[9]
- Steel products: hot-rolled sheet, aluminized sheet, cold-rolled sheet, hot-dip galvanized sheet[6]
- Steel sector end users: appliance, automotive, construction, distribution, strip converters and tubular[6]
- Steelmaking process: integrated (BF)[4]
- Primary steel production equipment:2 sinter plants; 5 blast furnaces (BF); 6 basic oxygen furnaces (BOF); 1 electric arc furnace (EAF) (began in 1970, rebuilt in 2001, idled in Jan. 2020) [4][5]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. Completes Acquisition of ArcelorMittal USA, Cleveland-Cliffs, Dec. 9, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Worker dies at ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor in East Chicago, Joseph S. Pete, NorthWest Indiana Times, Jul. 21, 2020, Updated: Jul. 31, 2020, Retrieved on: Aug. 6, 2020
- ↑ Worker killed at ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor was 71-year-old man, Joseph S. Pete, NorthWest Indiana Times, Jul. 22, 2020, Updated Aug. 3, 2020, Retrieved on: Aug. 6, 2020
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Indiana Harbor, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Aug. 6, 2020
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 2020 AIST Electric Arc Furnace Roundup, Association for Iron & Steel Technology, Jan. 2020
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Indiana Harbor Brochure, ArcelorMittal, Retrieved on: Aug. 6, 2020
- ↑ Fact Book 2019, ArcelorMittal, 2020
- ↑ 2020 AIST Blast Furnace Roundup, Association for Iron & Steel Technology, Jan. 2020
- ↑ Fact Book 2018, ArcelorMittal, 2019
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