Cascading failures involving a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion in 2023 at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory, killing seven workers when the ...

Seven people were killed in the explosion at the chocolate factory in West Reading on Friday ... Reading grows as investigators search for the cause of the blast, which killed seven people ...

Authorities are working to determine the cause of an explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory that left seven people dead. The incident occurred at the historic R.M. Palmer Co. factory just ...

Kim West, NTSB Investigator-In-Charge, revealed that a retired gas line was the source of a leak that cause the factory to explode ... then through the chocolate pipe conduits and into building ...

At least two people are dead and nine others are missing after an explosion and subsequent fire at the R.M. Palmer Company's chocolate factory in ... Wayne Holben, the cause of the explosion ...