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On September 13, 2018, excessive pressure in natural gas lines owned by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts caused a series of explosions and fires to occur in as many as 40 homes, with over 80 individual fires, in the towns of Lawrence, Andover, and North Andover, all within the Merrimack Valley, in Massachusetts, United States. One person, 18-year ...
The settlement's approval comes days after Columbia Gas of Massachusetts pleaded guilty to causing the explosions that killed one person, injured dozens of others, and damaged or destroyed more ...
The explosion and fire caused $2,735,339 of property damage. [70] The Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation's 30-inch diameter pipeline ruptured due to earth movement (a landslide on an unstable slope) which stressed and buckled the steel pipe installed in 1969. [56]
Columbia Gas is taking harmful, profit-maximizing steps while nickel and diming workers, Eddie Hall writes ... but a settlement was struck which resulted in a revenue increase of more than $68 ...
February 10 – A natural gas explosion and fire in Oak Grove, Missouri involved the failure of a customer owned service line at a threaded joint. Two persons were killed and their house was destroyed in the explosion. [210] March 25 – A leaking gas distribution line caused an explosion in Topeka, Kansas, killing one person. This was the ...
On Aug. 19, there was a natural gas explosion at a strip mall in Balch Springs, east of Dallas. ... The lawsuit was dismissed after the two sides reached a settlement, according to court documents ...
February 9 – Five people were killed, and eight houses were destroyed, in a gas explosion and fire in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The NTSB had warned UGI about cast iron gas mains needing replacement after the 1990 gas explosion in that city. Between 1976 and the date of the letter, July 10, 1992, two more gas explosions occurred.
January 3 – A natural gas explosion and a fire occurred at a gas pressure station in Wytheville, Virginia, destroying a home and a motorcycle store. [231] January 8 – A leak in a 12-inch pipe at a Koch Industries tank farm in Benavides County, Texas spilled about 10,500 barrels of crude oil. The cause was internal corrosion of the pipe ...