Employer · WARN Act history · Manufacturing
United States Steel
711 workers across 2 WARN notices, primarily in IN - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 711
- Workers cut
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- WARN notices
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- State
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- Avg / notice
United States Steel has 2 recorded WARN filings affecting 711 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, United States Steel has 2 recorded filings covering 711 workers across 1 state, primarily IN, the 246th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
United States Steel is a minor share of Manufacturing WARN activity — 0.3% of the sector's 211,445 workers across 776 employers, ranking #29 in Manufacturing.
How 711 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
United States Steel city concentration · concentrated
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
Gary accounts for 55.8% of United States Steel's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Lead city Gary · 55.8% · 2 named cities · top-3 share 100%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer UNITED-STATE · United States Steel 711 workers · 2 filings
NOTC-LIGHT · WORK-HEAVY · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-SINGLE · BOOK-SINGLE · TYPE-LAYOFF
- NOTC-LIGHT 2 filings
- WORK-HEAVY #246
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 63d
- STAT-SINGLE IN
- BOOK-SINGLE 1 agency
- TYPE-LAYOFF 2 layoffs
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest United States Steel WARN filings · notice runway
Top 2 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Gary, IN · Layoff · Manufacturing 397 workers · filed Jan 20, 2015 · 61d runway
- East Chicago, IN · Layoff · Manufacturing 314 workers · filed Sep 6, 2019 · 64d runway
Median forward runway across 2 dated filings: 63 days (0 under 60d · 2 at/above 60d ).
What changed - United States Steel WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2015 → 2019: WARN workers affected for United States Steel fell from 397 in 2015 to 314 in 2019; notice count held from 1 to 1.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2019.
Where United States Steel Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. United States Steel is in the 501-1.5k bucket (#246 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: Sep 2019.
WARN Notice History
2019
East Chicago, IN · Manufacturing
Effective: Nov 9, 2019
314
workers
Filed Sep 6, 2019
2015
Gary, IN · Manufacturing
Effective: Mar 22, 2015
397
workers
Filed Jan 20, 2015
Questions about this United States Steel record
What is the largest United States Steel WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Gary, IN on Jan 20, 2015, covering 397 workers in Manufacturing.
Where were United States Steel's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name East Chicago and Gary; together they form 2 mass-layoff filings sourced from Indiana DWD. States represented in this record: IN.
Where is United States Steel's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Gary accounts for 55.8% of United States Steel's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 100%.
Does United States Steel's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2015 through 2019 across 2 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in United States Steel's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway clears the federal 60-day baseline; use the dated filing history to see which location and event produced it.
See also: IN WARN filings · Manufacturing industry WARNs · WARN Act guide
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries United States Steel notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.