CLAIRTON, Pa. — Explosions late Monday morning at Clairton Coke Works in Allegheny County killed two people and injured 10 others.

Katie Boyd’s son was working at the plant when the explosion occurred around 10:30 a.m.

Corbin Boyd, 20, worked on the battery where the explosion occurred, but was able to immediately let his family know he was uninjured, his mother said.

“He was about 100 feet from it, from what I understand. He was in his break room when it happened … He felt the whole explosion,” she said. A friend of her son’s was among the injured and had to be flown by medical helicopter.

Early Monday afternoon, Katie Boyd and her family were waiting in the parking lot of the nearby Speedway convenience store for Corbin, who’d worked a double shift, to leave the plant.

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