Gas leaked from defective fitting at fatal chocolate factory explosion
Officials found that one of two leaks at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading was fractured before March explosion.
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Officials found that one of two leaks at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading was fractured before March explosion.
It leveled a building and killed 7 in March.
Federal safety investigators have determined that natural gas was leaking from a defective fitting at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory where a powerful explosion killed seven people.
Natural gas leaked from a defective fitting at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory where a powerful explosion leveled one building, heavily damaged another and killed seven people, federal safety investigators said Tuesday as they continued to investigate the cause of the blast. One of two leaks at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading was […]
The findings outraged lawyers for the victims' families.