NTSB holds a public hearing aimed at determining what the probable cause of the fatal explosion at the R.M. Palmer Co.

The National Transportation Safety Board met Tuesday to discuss last year’s deadly factory explosion in West Reading. But ...

About 70 production workers and 35 office staff at R.M. Palmer Co. were working in two adjacent buildings at the time of the blast.

The National Transportation Safety Board held a hearing Tuesday to address what led up to the explosion in West Reading, and ...

More than a year and a half after a candy factory exploded in West Reading, the National Transportation Safety Board finished its investigation. The NTSB presented its findings in Washington, D.C., on ...

That steam heated the ground, investigators said, which helped contribute to cracks forming in the service tee. In all, three ...

Berks County lawmakers are pushing for a bill that would help to identify a type of piping thought to have contributed to the ...

A federal safety board says a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion at a ...

A federal safety board says a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory, killing seven workers when the company failed to ...

The T-shaped connector found by the National Transportation Safety Board to have failed before the deadly March 2023 West ...

Cascading failures involving a corroded steam pipe and a defective natural gas fitting caused a powerful explosion in 2023 at ...