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

A federal hearing into the deadly explosion at the R.M. Palmer candy factory in West Reading was underway Tuesday.

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

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.

New details regarding a deadly natural-gas-fueled explosion and fire that happened at the R.M. Palmer candy factory in West ...

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 ...

More than a year and a half after a candy factory exploded in West Reading, the National Transportation Safety Board finished ...

The 27 page report, which was released on Friday, claims that the pilot-in-command (PIC) and second-in-command (SIC) proceeded to fly despite a warning message in the cockpit. The mishap resulted ...

NTSB Report: Pilots ignored warning messages before emergency landing in Hartford in 2023, resulting in death of former White House official Juliana Lepore Sat, December 7, 2024 at 12:27 AM UTC ...

NTSB also says the maintenance crew was using a form of protection called watchman lookout, in which a watchman is assigned who is responsible for warning the maintenance crew of approaching trains.