Great Lakes Carbon Corporation

Hodges, Paul
St. Louis Globe-Democrat

1961-03-16

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Gas leakage
Coke plants
Oil industry

Saint Louis (Mo.)

1960-1969

"Seven employes in the metallurgical coke plant of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, 526 Catalan St., were injured Wednesday morning when gas accumulated at one end of a battery of coke ovens, causing two explosions. The accumulation was caused when a by-pass valve leaked gas into steam that was being used to purge the gas from a gas header line, preparatory to changing an orifice, according to Everett Hart, operations manager of the firm's Missouri Coke and Chemical division."

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