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The Fairless Works was named for Benjamin Franklin Fairless. I began my career there as a laborer in the rod mill in 1974, one of 8,000 or so steel workers during peak production. I left in 1975 during a layoff. Fairless Works furnaces closed in 1991. More of the mill was closed by 2001. U.S. Steel shut down the cold rolling and tin mill operations at its Fairless Works. A 65" Hot-dip galvanizing line remains as the Mon Vally Works.

THE AMERICAN DREAM: FIRED UP AND MELTED DOWN
Washington Post, by Dale Russakoff, April 12, 1992

FAIRLESS HILLS, PA. -- Joe Vandegrift had his back to the window as usual. He could do without the view: nine rusting smokestacks rising out of the giant furnace where he and thousands of others spent their best years melting and muscling iron into steel. "My Titanic," he said, cocking his head toward the wreckage. "That's my ship that went down."

Vandegrift, 46, a mill mechanic for 25 years, lost his job a year ago when USX Corp. closed most of its massive Fairless Works here on the Delaware River. His old job was hard, but this one is a killer. Vandegrift is a counselor in a dislocated workers center, helping nearly 2,000 men and women who made steel in a cauldron of filth and fire try to negotiate the life after. Read more


This rod mill 4 strands rolling is like the mill I worked at the Fairless Works.