On the first day of spring in Canton — an unseasonably cold March day — a man went to perform the monthly fire extinguisher check at the steel plant where he worked.
The 32-year-old fire technician inspected a series of fire extinguishers at TimkenSteel Corp.'s Faircrest Street plant. But when he entered the control room to check another off his list, he did not come out.
A coworker found his body later that day. He had suffocated after nitrogen leaked into the control room. Air quality readings taken that day by the fire department and TimkenSteel found oxyge...
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