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Edgar Thomson Steel Works in the mid-1990s. The Edgar Thomson Steel Works is a steel mill in the Pittsburgh area communities of Braddock and North Braddock, Pennsylvania. It has been active since 1875. It is currently owned by U.S. Steel and is known as Mon Valley Works – Edgar Thomson Plant.
A water tower at the US Steel Corp. Edgar Thomson Works steel mill in Braddock, Pennsylvania, US, on April 6, 2024.
U.S. Steel employs 3,000 people at its four major Pennsylvania plants, including the Edgar Thomson and the nation's largest coke-making plant in nearby Clairton. Nippon Steel — the world’s fourth-largest steelmaker in 2023, according to association figures — and U.S. Steel are now in the midst of a broad public relations effort to promote ...
Tony Buba, a filmmaker who lives near the Edgar Thomson plant and whose father worked for 44 years at a steel mill, sees a misplaced nostalgia around Pittsburgh's steel industry.
A portion of US Steel's Edgar Thomson plant in Braddock, Pa., is shown on Dec. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
U.S. Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Works - Braddock, Pennsylvania - Andrew Carnegie's first steel mill completed in 1875. Still in operation. Oldest integrated steel mill in the world. U.S. Steel Duquesne Works - Duquesne, Pennsylvania - Steel operations ended 1984. Razed in late 1990s. now RIDC Park with a U.S. Steel Training Hub
Carnegie began the construction of his first steel mill, the Edgar Thomson Steel Works, in 1872 at Braddock, Pennsylvania. [1] The Thomson Steel Works began producing rails in 1874. [ 2 ] By a combination of low wages, efficient technology infrastructure investment and an efficient organization, the mill produced cheap steel, which sold for a ...
In its first five years, the Edgar Thomson Steel Works rose to become the world's most productive and profitable steel mill. Jones was employed by Andrew Carnegie as superintendent, but under Jones' conditions: he was to be in control of the mill's labor management and the men working there were to be well paid, and well rested to lessen the ...