Evraz North America has confirmed to the Chieftain that a contractor was killed at the company's long rail mill project on Friday. Here's what we know.

A contractor at the site, 32-year-old Pierre Warford, of Amite, Louisiana, was killed Oct. 20, 2023, when a crane overturned at the Evraz long rail mill project.

A total of "1,533 tons of rail, more than 15 miles, were recently loaded onto train cars at our Pueblo mill and shipped to one of our customers." "We've come a long way over the last nine months.

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This is great news for the future of our mill, and our community, with the steel mill being one of the largest employers in Pueblo." EVRAZ NA employs about 3,400 individuals in the U.S. and Canada.

Evraz North America has confirmed to the Chieftain that a contractor was killed at the company's long rail mill project on Friday. Here's what we know.

The Evraz Rocky Mountain Steel Mill on Aug. 9, 2024, when a worker was killed in an unspecified accident at the site's rail rolling mill.© Zachary Allen/The Pueblo Chieftain ...

A contractor killed Friday by a collapsing crane at the Evraz North America long rail mill project in Pueblo has been identified by the county coroner. Pierre Warford, 32, of Amite, Louisiana, was ...