The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team of pipeline and hazardous materials investigators to Youngstown, Ohio, to investigate the natural gas explosion.
Meredith Deliso and Jason VolackThe National Transportation Safety Board said a cut to an inactive but still pressurized gas line will be a central focus of their investigation into what caused aThe blast occurred near Central Square on Tuesday afternoon and impacted a building that contains a Chase bank and apartments. One person was killed and seven others injured in the explosion, officials said.
The preliminary investigation suggests that work crews were in the basement of the building to reportedly clear out old utility infrastructure prior to the explosion, according to NTSB board member Tom Chapman. Following the explosion, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio and Enbridge Gas, the service provider for the area, gained access to the basement and discovered a cut to the pressurized but inactive below-ground service line, Chapman said.
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