The National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing Tuesday to address what led up to the explosion in West Reading, and ...

Berks County lawmakers are pushing for a bill that would help to identify a type of piping thought to have contributed to the ...

About 70 production workers and 35 office staff at R.M. Palmer Co. were working in two adjacent buildings at the time of the blast.

Cascading failures involving a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion in 2023 at ...

The gas ignited, causing an explosion and fire that killed seven Palmer employees, injured 10 people and destroyed the ...

The NTSB factual report came out in March; the probable cause report is expected around Sept. 1. The plane sustained “substantial damage” to the engine mount and fuselage, the NTSB report said.

A federal safety board says a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion at a ...

A federal safety board says a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory, killing seven workers when the company failed to ...