General Steel Industries

General Steel Industries

General Steel Industries was an American steel company founded in 1953 in Granite City, Illinois and acquired St. Louis Car Co. in 1955. It was purchased and merged into the Lukens Steel Company in 1981. [cite news
title = General Steel Pact Approved
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03E5D91538F934A25751C1A967948260
publisher = The New York Times
date = December 17, 1981]

The former General Steel Industries plant at 1417 State Street in Granite City, Illinois performed work related to atomic weapons from 1953 to 1966. The building "had residual radioactive contamination until remediation in 1993". [cite web|url=http://www.dol.gov/esa/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/PolicyandProcedures/finalcircularhtml/EEOICPACircular08-02.htm|title=EEOICPA CIRCULAR NO. 08-02|date=November 1, 2007|work=U.S. Department of Labor - Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) - Division of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation (DEEOIC)|accessdate=2008-09-22]

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