Pennsylvania chocolate plant blast kills 5, leaves 6 missing

In this screen grab from video provided by WPVI-TV/6ABC, smoke rises from an explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading, Pa., Friday, March 24, 2023. In this screen grab from video provided by WPVI-TV/6ABC, smoke rises from an explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in West Reading, Pa., Friday, March 24, 2023.

The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency confirmed the increase in the number of fatalities Saturday morning after the blast just before 5 p.m. Friday at the R.M. Palmer Co. plant in the borough of West Reading. “It’s pretty leveled,” Mayor Samantha Kaag said of the explosion site. “The building in the front, with the church and the apartments, the explosion was so big that it moved that building four feet forward.”

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families affected. While we don’t know what caused this and surely there is an investigation underway, things like this are why everyone plays a part in standard operating procedures and business processes and procedures.

You sure they were only making chocolate at this factory?

Too soon?

Prayers

👤Polycrisis! 🔺👁️🔻

are they safe?

I’m willing to bet management was negligent. Workers more than likely sounded the alarm bells and they just didn’t listen. Profits over people!

That’s one way to raise the price of chocolate rabbits right before Easter

Deep State sabotage ... bet on it ..

TheRealCoryElia this is what happens when you don't let the oompa loompas unionize

Six missing? Have they checked the tubes?

American taxpayers will get punished for this not the company or regulators who failed to prevent this tragedy.

Suspects are in custody.

Unbelievable that a metaphor ppl have been using following the East Palestine train derailment has now literally exploded tragically killing ppl.. What are the odds?!? bennyjohnson mtg Jim_Jordan JDVance1

Somebody mixed a snozzberry with a blueberry, big no no

Wasnt mtgreenee or laurenboebert just there?

uhu Freeshit production, right she have chocolates industries in Amiens, in france, but in fact, it's late.

The cat sanctuary next door is now the KitKat sanctuary next door

I'm waiting for the conspiracy theorists to jump in here....

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