Utility, Subcontractor Blamed for Explosion
According to the Courthouse News Service on July 27th: A utility company and its subcontractor are responsible for the death of a woman and the destruction of several houses caused by a [...]
According to the Courthouse News Service on July 27th: A utility company and its subcontractor are responsible for the death of a woman and the destruction of several houses caused by a [...]
According to Indianapolis Star on June 12th: The news reports from New York of an underground escape by dangerous inmates from a prison built before the Civil War has an all too [...]
According to Business Insider on June 9th: A prison break at a maximum-security facility in New York is baffling authorities who are now frantically searching for two murderers on the loose several [...]
According to The Wall Street Journal: A California regulator fined PG&E Corp. $1.6 billion for a deadly natural-gas explosion in a San Francisco suburb in 2010, marking the largest penalty ever levied against a [...]
According to the San Francisco Examiner: Officials of a San Francisco suburb hit by a deadly 2010 gas-line blast said Tuesday they support a proposal to raise the financial penalty against the [...]
According to the New York Post: Workers accidentally hit a gas pipe in downtown Brooklyn Saturday morning, starting a leak that shut down traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge, officials said. A high-pressure [...]
According to NBC 4 Washington: A water main break in downtown D.C. sent water gushing into the air and onto Interstate 395. A construction crew struck the water main... sending water pouring [...]
According to CBS New York: Three homes were evacuated Tuesday morning after a large sinkhole swallowed a car in South Amboy. Video from the scene showed a small SUV covered in mud [...]
According to 10 TV News: ... the persistent smell of rotten eggs detected more than a year ago.
According to Fox 28 News: A natural gas explosion felt for miles away blew an Upper Arlington home to bits Saturday afternoon. As many as seven neighboring homes sustained damage, as well... several [...]
According to IndyStar News: A utility consultant warned three years ago that manhole explosions would continue to rock Downtown Indianapolis three to five times a year and that Indianapolis Power & Light [...]
According to NorthJersey.com: The water commission responded to 100 water main breaks during January and February, which the agency says shattered the record set last year, when 86 lines burst during the [...]
According to NJ.com: PSE&G and subcontractor Henkels & McCoy were hit Wednesday with the largest fines ever issued by the state Board of Public Utilities for safety violations that led to the [...]
According to NBC (KGNS News) TV: Repair crews in Corpus Christi are working to fix a water main break that opened up a huge sinkhole early Tuesday morning. Around 4:15 the car [...]
According to The State News: The natural gas leak at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory construction site that prompted an evacuation of the site and closure of nearby sections of Wilson Road and Bogue Street was caused [...]
According to Fox Boston: ... a gas leak in Canton left bubbles gurgling through cracks on the street... These leaks are concerning for multiple reasons, according to McKain, including safety, waste of [...]
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According to NBC News (WFMJ): ... this is the fifth gas line break within the area under construction. ... the crews hit a two-inch line that was miss-marked. Local employees affected by [...]
According to CTV News: Workers ruptured a one-inch gas line at a condo construction site a block away from a similar incident only a week earlier.
According to ABC News: "In the days after the blast, federal investigators found a leak in a gas main that had parts dating back to 1887."