This steel plant was closed several years ago. It's hard to find a definitive answer as to when, since the last owners I know of went through bankruptcy, and the company who later purchased it is in Spain. I also later learned that it's a Superfund site with PCB, chromium, arsenic, and cadmium contamination. I swear I didn't know until after I went. On the bible, your honor.
Some of my information shows that it was closed in 1999 when the company went through bankruptcy. Another place says someone died here in 2002 in a crane accident when still owned by that company. Calendars on the wall had dates of 1997 and 1993, so I really have no idea.
Total of 40-something shots, here's a few...
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3. Probably due to a morbid fascination with the fact a guy was killed in a crane accident, I shot every crane I saw. Not all of them made it to flickr.
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7. This felt somehow ironic.
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The full set is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/surrybee/sets...57623523028905/
