Gas pipe explosion kills restaurant worker, injures three contractors
Contractor breached natural gas pipe
Both a contractor and a restaurant have been cited by OSHA in the Feb. 19th explosion and fire that killed one worker and injured three others.
The incident was caused by an uncontained natural gas leak released from an underground 2-inch natural gas transmission pipeline. A crew employed by Heartland Midwest LLC, a communication utilities contracting company, breached the natural gas supply line with the boring tip of a horizontal directional drilling machine while laying a fiber-optic cable outside JJ’s Bar and Grill in Kansas City.