Pa. chocolate company ignored gas leak warning before fatal blast: lawsuit

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The family of a 55-year-old woman who died in the West Reading explosion filed what their lawyers called the first wrongful-death suit against R.M. Palmer Co.

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Palmer officials should have evacuated the building immediately after being told of the gas odor but instead “made a representation to the factory workers, including Judith Lopez-Moran, that the factory was safe and that there was no gas leak,” the suit said. This photo provided by Aaron Paz shows Patricia Borges at Reading Hospital in West Reading, Pa., on March 25, 2023. Borges was pulled alive from the rubble of the R.M. Palmer Co. factory explosion. and was a friend and co-worker of Lopez-Moran, previously recounted how her arm caught fire as flames engulfed the building. She then fell through the floor into a vat of liquid chocolate.

 

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They smelled gas for over a week leading up to the explosion. My wife’s aunt works there.

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