Federal safety investigators issued a subpoena to Pennsylvania’s public utility regulator on Monday for documents related to a fatal explosion at a chocolate factory, escalating a months-long legal dispute over the state agency's authority to share the sensitive information.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has refused to provide unredacted inspection and investigation reports for UGI Utilities Inc., the natural gas utility at the center of the probe into the March 24 blast at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading.
The interagency dispute over five years' worth of UGI records involved a conflict between state and federal law. Officials said at least nine people were still missing hours after the explosion that leveled a building in West Reading. "This is a unique situation where a federal agency is demanding that the PUC violate state law," PUC spokesperson Nils Hagen-Frederiksen said in a written statement. "It is unfortunate that the NTSB has rejected possible solutions to this issue, but we continue working to resolve this impasse."
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