An explosion at midday on Thursday, October 5 at the electric arc furnace of Turkish steel producer Toscelik's flat steel and construction steel plant in Osmaniye in southern Turkey caused injury to 18 workers who have been hospitalized. Operations at the facility have been temporarily suspended, while an investigation has been launched to determine the cause of the explosion.
Tosçelik's Osmaniye plant has an annual crude steel output capacity of two million metric tons, with a 170-mt electric arc furnace and a ladle furnace of same capacity.