Company charged in 2018 blast that leveled home and hurt 3, including 4-year-old boy

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State authorities have announced charges against a company over a natural gas explosion that leveled a house and injured a western Pennsylvania family five years ago. The attorney general's office alleges Equitrans L.P. allowed methane gas in an underground storage reservoir to migrate upward and eventually reach the Greene County home.

CLARKSVILLE, Pa. — State authorities have announced charges against a company over a natural gas explosion that leveled a house and injured a western Pennsylvania family five years ago.

Natural gas storage fields such as Equitrans’ Pratt field allow companies to store gas underground and to extract it during periods of high demand, such as the winter months. But Henry said the company had long acknowledged in federal filings “that the Pratt field was losing gas and that wells within the field were likely leaking.”

Henry apologized to members of the family, who she said were present but didn’t speak, saying the family had no idea the underground field existed when they purchased the home. Pointing to pictures of the leveled house, she called it “a true miracle” that all three people managed to get out of the home alive.

Equitrans on Tuesday disputed the grand jury’s conclusion, saying it had fully cooperated with the body’s investigation and believes evidence it presented “factually demonstrates that Equitrans’ operations were not the cause of the incident,” spokesperson Natalie Cox said.earlier this year that a Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection report last year said the source of the gas couldn’t conclusively be determined but cited Equitrans and Peoples Natural Gas as two likely candidates.

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