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Worker Killed In Explosion Of Gas Line
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Published: January 6, 2008
RIVER ROUGE, Mich. - An explosion and fire along a gas pipeline killed a contract worker Saturday on an island used by industry 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 U.S. Steel facility on Zug Island, company spokesman John Armstrong said.
Officials still were trying to determine what caused the pipeline to explode.
The other crew members were taken to a hospital for observation, Armstrong said.
He said four members of the crew, including the worker killed, worked for Detroit area company R.J. Stacey. The company was contracted by U.S. Steel to repair the coke oven gas line between the company's facility and an adjacent facility owned by DTE Energy.
DTE Energy supplies U.S. Steel with coke gas, which Armstrong said replaces natural gas in the heating of industrial facilities.
The DTE Energy facility was not damaged, spokeswoman Lorie Kessler said.
The Associated Press
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