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The natural gas transmission line is operated by Middleton-based Williams Cos. and the worker had dug through 22 inches of the pipeline, Jones said. Williams Cos. turned off the gas, Jones said ...
February 11 – A corroded gas line from a gas main leaked, causing an explosion that killed three people at a meat packing plant in Toledo, Ohio. [48] February 27 – A trench-digging machine being used in building a freeway cut into a gasoline pipeline in West Los Angeles, California. At least three people were burned, with nine homes, a ...
May 5 – A leak occurred in a relief line, at a Keystone Pipeline Terminal in Beaumont, Texas. About 18,500 gallons of crude oil were spilled. The cause seemed to be internal corrosion. [5] July 28 – A gas line explosion and fire occurred in Martin County, Texas, which injured four workers. A ditching truck hit an existing high-pressure gas ...
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 ...
“It was an apparently abandoned service line coming off the main, which ran parallel to the street,” Chapman said. He said workers smelled no gas before they started cutting the pipe and knew there was a problem when they made the third cut. At that point, workers pulled the fire alarm and alerted residents and bank employees to evacuate.
A crew working in the basement area of an Ohio building intentionally cut a gas line not knowing it was pressurized before a deadly explosion this week, the National Transportation Safety Board ...
Incident occurred after a ‘worker in an excavator dug through a 22-inch Williams pipeline’
The gas explosion killed 3 residents of the duplex, and seriously injured 3 others. [99] June 24 – A Tennessee Gas Pipeline line failed just next to a gas compressor station in West Monroe, Louisiana, causing a massive fire that forced evacuations of homes & businesses within a mile of the failure. Internal corrosion of the pipeline was the ...