Workers at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory smelled “rotten eggs' before a powerful natural gas explosion that leveled one building, heavily damaged another and killed seven people, federal safety officials said in a preliminary report.
The probe has been focused on a natural gas pipeline as safety investigators try to figure out the cause.
Workers at the plant have accused R.M. Palmer of ignoring warnings of a natural gas leak, saying the plant should have been evacuated. A wrongful-death lawsuit filed last month by the family of blast victim Judith “Judy” Lopez-Moran, a 55-year-old mother of three, said Palmer bore responsibility for the explosion. Workers smelled natural gas that day and notified Palmer, but the 75-year-old company “did nothing,” the lawsuit said.
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