high fuel costs affecting its coal-fired plants, combined with pending debt maturities and the need to retrofit its coal-fired facilities to comply with environmental regulations. Fisk Station was among the plants named in a 2002 Harvard School of Public Health study which found communities near these older coal power plants showed significant health risks such as increased mortality and asthma rates. Midwest Generation's Crawford Generating Station in the Little Village neighborhood was also named in the study. Both plants were marked for closure. Accidents At least six workers died as a result of workplace accidents at Fisk Station: Peter J. Gregor, 35-year-old foreman was fatally burned on February 2, 1937. Robert A. Hurtienne, a 55-year-old station electrician fell from a ladder on October 15, 1938. Floyd Coleman, a 63-year-old boiler operator was fatally burned on July 11, 1945. Terrance Lennon, 56 years old, and William E. Kenny, 33 years old, electricians, were both fatally burned October 19, 1954. Matthew J. Wynne Jr., a 23-year-old substation construction mechanic, suffered a fatal accident on January 26, 1974. On November 21, 1976 41-year-old Chicago firefighter Walter Watroba lost his life after being pinned for seven hours by a fallen coal chute. Watroba died shortly after his leg was amputated in order to extricate him. Three hundred firefighters had responded to a fire that started at Throop Street where a coal chute conveyor emerged from an underground passage. The fire spread along the coal conveyor to a control room, switch house, boiler and turbine buildings and caused $8 million in damages. Units In addition to the main coal-fired unit, the station had a number of kerosene-fired back-up units: See also List of power stations in Illinois References External links 2003 Fisk Generating Station Fact Sheet www.ibewlocal15.org https://www.nlrb.gov/case/13-CA-039643 https://archive.today/20130407223725/http://www.chicagofirefightersmonument.com/index.html Buildings and structures in Chicago Exelon Energy infrastructure completed in 1903 Historic American Engineering Record in Chicago Former coal-fired power stations in Illinois 1903 establishments in Illinois 2012 disestablishments in Illinois