Wheeling Steel Corp. Workers Injured

Article taken from The Chronicle Telegram, March 31, 1937


Portsmouth, O., March 31 -

Five Wheeling Steel Corp. workers were burned yesterday when air used in cleaning a fuel line on a truck blew gasoline vapor toward a salamander causing an explosion.  Clyde Smith, Lucasville, was burned seriously.  Edward Pennington, Portsmouth; James Burchett, Cove; Tim Chapman, Otway, and William Price, Sciotoville, also were burned.