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 Tuesday in a preliminary report.
The National Transportation Safety Board's five-paragraph account of the fatal explosion confirmed earlier reporting by The Associated Press and other media outlets that employees had detected an odor of natural gas at the R.M. Palmer Co. factory in West Reading, a small town 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
"Employees from Building 2 recalled that they were sanitizing equipment in the building when they detected an odor of natural gas. The employees in Building 1 recalled the smell of rotten eggs around the same time," the agency's report said. UGI Corp. provided natural gas to the factory complex via two mains. UGI said there wasn't any utility work going on in the area, and it detected no sudden surge in gas usage before the explosion, the report said.
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