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AK Steel’s Coshocton works recognized for outstanding safety performance

Monday, Apr 23, 2020

WEST CHESTER, Ohio, April 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — AK Steel’s (NYSE: AKS) Coshocton (Ohio) Works has been recognized for outstanding safety performance by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Division of Safety and Hygiene.  The recognition is part of a collaborative safety awareness program established by the Coshocton County Safety Council and Chamber of Commerce.

“It is an honor to be recognized by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Division of Safety and Hygiene, an achievement that speaks volumes about our culture of safety at AK Steel,” said James L. Wainscott, Chairman, President and CEO of AK Steel.  “We congratulate all of our Coshocton Works employees for their outstanding safety performance.”

AK Steel’s Coshocton Works received a “Special Award for Safety” for operating 2,952,729 hours without a lost-time injury between February 20, 2020 and August 5, 2020.

AK Steel’s corporate-wide safety performance was about 5.5 times better than the steel industry average for the full-year 2011.

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AK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels, primarily for automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing, construction and electrical power generation and distribution markets.  The company employs about 6,200 men and women in Middletown, Mansfield, Coshocton and Zanesville, Ohio; Butler, Pennsylvania; Ashland, Kentucky; Rockport, Indiana; and its corporate headquarters in West Chester, Ohio.  Additional information about AK Steel is available on the company’s web site at www.aksteel.com.

AK Tube LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AK Steel, employs about 300 men and women in plants in Walbridge, Ohio and Columbus, Indiana.  AK Tube produces carbon and stainless electric resistance welded (ERW) tubular steel products for truck, automotive and other markets.

Additional information about AK Tube LLC is available on its web site at www.aktube.com.


AK Coal Resources, Inc., another wholly-owned subsidiary of AK Steel, owns or leases metallurgical coal reserves in Somerset County, Pennsylvania.  AK Steel also owns 49.9% of Magnetation LLC, a joint venture headquartered in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, which produces iron ore concentrate from previously mined ore reserves.

SOURCE AK Steel

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