Federal safety officials are investigating the role of a natural gas pipeline in a fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday.
, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday.
Friday's powerful explosion at R.M. Palmer Co. killed seven people, sent 10 to the hospital and damaged several other buildings in West Reading, a small town 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia, where the 75-year-old, family-owned company has long had a factory. The National Transportation Safety Board announced the probe late Tuesday afternoon, calling the incident a "natural gas" explosion and fire. The agency has preliminary information from local authorities and a natural gas utility that a gas pipeline was involved, an agency spokesperson, Keith Holloway, told The Associated Press.
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