Report: Thundering Blasts Take Down RG Furnaces in Steubenville
08/13/2013 - The two 100-year-old blast furnaces at the former RG Steel Corp. Steubenville plant disappeared in two thundering blasts and clouds of dust Thursday afternoon, officially ending a steel-making era in the city, according to a report from the Tribune-Chronicle.
The demolition of the two blast furnaces by the Joseph B. Fay Co. of Pittsburgh are part of a major cleanup of the steel mill site that is now owned by Strauss Industries of Wheeling as it transforms the property into an industrial park area.
Fay employees had spent several weeks preparing for the controlled explosive demolition of the towering iron structures that produced molten iron for more than a century…
