U.S. Steel Clairton Coke Works' current limited coke-making capacity due to Monday's explosion is prompting concerns from some steelworkers that the plant won't produce enough coke for U.S. Steel's blast furnaces.

U.S. Steel executives have shared that they are making enough coke. Don Furko, the former president of USW Local 1557 who works at Clairton, first shared concerns about the plant's production levels in 2024 after battery 15 permanently shut down.

"It makes it so that we need every ton of coke that we can possibly make," Furko said in June 2024. "In other words, if we were going to lose one more batter,y we wouldn't be able to feed all the blast furnaces that the company currently runs."

That would be devastating, Furko said in 2024, potentially leading to job losses.

Now, mul

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