In recent years, retired steelworker Terry Steagall has prodded public and union officials to get a memorial for 14 workers who died in the Cline Avenue bridge construction in East Chicago in 1982,…
Local labor activist Terry Steagall stands near one of the original, remaining, Cline Avenue Bridge pillars, as he points out features at one of two proposed sites for a memorial to workers who died in the 1982 Cline Avenue Bridge collapse, in East Chicago on Friday, April 26, 2024.
Local labor activist Terry Steagall stands on one of two sites proposed for a memorial to the 14 workers lost in the April 15, 1982 Cline Avenue Bridge collapse, as well as others lost to construction and labor accidents, in East Chicago on Friday, April 26, 2024. Steagall was working in Inland Steel’s machine shop on April 15, 1982, when Indiana’s worst construction accident happened not far away.
Local labor activist Terry Steagall stands on one of two proposed sites for a memorial to the 14 who died in the Cline Avenue Bridge collapse of April 15, 1982, as well as others lost to construction and labor accidents, in East Chicago on Friday, April 26, 2024. The Standard Steel Car factory later became a Pullman-Standard factory, which made rail cars there until 1980. Industries still occupy much of the area where the plant stood.
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