Jumbled wreckage complicates Pa. chocolate factory blast probe: report
and several others wounded in the powerful blast at the R.M Palmer Co. plant in West Reading, Pennsylvania. One survivor was pulled from the rubble hours after the powerful explosion rattled windows and shook houses.With the recovery effort now over, attention turned to identifying the cause — a task complicated by the jumbled wreckage.
“Everything’s on the table at this point because we’re still not done with the investigation. To say it’s one way or another, I would not say that at this point,” Beohm said. Two state police fire marshals are working to determine the cause and origin of the blast, he said. Burgess said smaller particles that stay aloft pose a greater danger than bigger particles that quickly fall to the floor. Food manufacturers are supposed to determine the combustibility of the dust, perform a hazard analysis and then take steps to manage it.
Records from OSHA, the federal workplace safety agency, show only one violation at the West Reading plant over the past five years. In 2018, an employee lost the tip of a finger during the cleaning of a pneumatically pressurized ball valve. The company agreed to pay a $13,000 fine. The Berks County coroner’s office identified two of the victims as 49-year-old Amy Sandoe of Ephrata and 60-year-old Domingo Cruz of Reading and said “additional forensic medical examinations” would be needed to positively identify the other five victims. Autopsies were expected to be completed by the end of week, officials said.
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