Sept 4 (Reuters) - Teamsters members working at Marathon

Petroleum's ( MPC ) Detroit refinery will go on a strike

starting Wednesday after months of pay and safety related

negotiations with the company did not yield results, the union

said.

Marathon said it does not expect the strike to impact

operations at the facility.

"We are fully prepared and have implemented plans to

continue safely operating the facility," the company said in a

statement.

Marathon's Detroit refinery has a crude oil refining

capacity of 140,000 barrels per day, processing sweet and heavy

sour crude oils into products such as gasoline and distillates.

It employs about 273 Teamsters, 95% of whom authorised the

strike, the union said. Marathon did not immediately say how

many people it employed at the refinery.

(Reporting by Mrinalika Roy in Bengaluru)