Items Tagged with 'Gas Explosions'

Crews failed to relocate pressure-sensing lines from an old cast-iron distribution main during a mid-September Columbia Gas pipeline replacement, igniting a series of explosions and fires north of Boston, according to a preliminary report by federal investigators.

Dept. of Public Utilities to hire firm to examine natural gas distribution system in wake of Sept. 13 explosions that killed one person .

Accident investigations board will look into the cause of an April explosion that killed two working on a basement water heater and badly injured a third .