United States Steel Corporation

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to United States Steel Corporation's second quarter 2022 earnings conference call and webcast. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. I'll now hand the call over to Kevin Lewis, Vice President of Investor Relations and Corporate at P&A.

Thank you, Tommy. Good morning, and thank you, everyone, for joining our second quarter 2022 earnings call. Joining me today on today's call is U.S. Steel President and CEO Dave Burrett. Senior Vice President and CFO, Christy Briefs, and Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, Rich Ruhoff. This morning, we posted slides to accompany today's prepared remarks. These can be found on the U.S. Steel Investors page under the Events and Presentation section. Before we start, let me remind you that some information provided during this call may include forward-looking statements that are based on certain assumptions and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, as described in our SEC filings, and actual future results may vary materially. Forward-looking statements in the press release that we issued yesterday, along with our remarks today, are made as of today, and we undertake no duty to update them as actual events unfold. I would now like to turn the conference call over to U.S. Steel President and CEO Dave Burritt, who will begin on slide four.

Thank you, Kevin, and good morning to everyone joining us today. We appreciate your continued support of U.S. Steel. I am bullish on U.S. Steel's future because we are executing, and most importantly, we are executing safely. We are on pace for a third consecutive year of record safety performance as measured by days away from work and building on our already industry-leading position. which is second to none. We take our role as the industry leader in safety very seriously. At U.S. Steel, safety is always first. When safety is great, our operations are great. Thank you to our employees. We appreciate you for your continued focus and commitment to our shared safety goals. As we continue to execute our best for all strategy, we are progressing towards a less capital and carbon intensive business. We are pleased to share an update on our latest sustainability disclosure later in our prepared remarks. The rapid progress we've made demonstrates our continued commitment to become the best. To become the best, we are expanding our competitive advantages by leveraging our unique competitive advantage in lowest-cost iron ore, combining highly capable integrated assets with low-cost and technologically advanced mini mills, and investing in finishing capabilities that best serve our customers. As we've said before, to become the best for all, we need the best from all. I want to take a moment to recognize the continued trade enforcement by the current administration.