Safety Measures Being Considered After Gas Leak Suspected in Fatal Explosion

The recent house explosion and fire in Brooklyn's Borough Park neighborhood has led city officials to propose a new gas safety measure which might involve requiring licensure to disconnect, replace or modify gas lines linked to home appliances.

Officials believe the incident happened after a stove was removed from a gas line that may not have been properly disconnected. It appears a tenant on the second floor removed the stove when moving out a week prior. The blast blew off the front door of the three-story building, killing one woman inside. She lived on the third floor, but her body was discovered in a stairwell close to the apartment where the explosion started. Three people walking by the building were hit by flying debris, and 10 firefighters suffered minor injuries.

The blast follows several others in recent years. Last year, eight people were killed in an East Harlem blast. In February 2015, a natural gas explosion leveled a home and injured 15 people, two critically in a neighborhood at the New Jersey shore. A month later, an explosion destroyed three New York City apartment buildings in Manhattan's East Village neighborhood, killing 2 and injuring 22 others.

A gas explosion can occur as a result of a defective product or human error. Although homeowners are often at fault for many gas and propane explosions, gas and propane failures can be the result of improper venting, defective gas connectors and control valves, leaking pipes, hoses and tanks, faulty installation and negligent installation and maintenance. Liability could fall upon the manufacturer, the gas company, a propane company, an installation or maintenance company, even a landlord or homeowner.

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Lawsuits Consolidated for Discovery Purposes after Fatal Natural Gas Explosion

Determining liability in a gas explosion often requires extensive investigation. Depending upon where the fault lies, a number of parties could be held liable. Whether the result was from a defective product or someone’s negligence, liability could fall upon the manufacturer, the gas company, or an installer or maintenance company.  If you have been the victim of gas explosion resulting to the negligence or wrongdoing of another, you may seek compensation through a personal injury lawsuit. You may also qualify for pre-settlement litigation funding.

Three lawsuits linked to a fatal Topeka natural gas explosion in January 2012 have been temporarily merged for discovery purposes.  The suits were filed on behalf of Lucinia Tolliver’s estate and her daughter, Tolliver’s insurance carrier, Family Mutual Insurance, and Lois Jones, her next-door neighbor.  Defendants in all three suits are Kansas Gas Service and Glen Niehues, doing business as Wetmore-based N-Line Lawn Service. Tolliver died four days after the explosion leveled her home.  Jones was seriously injured in her own home.  According to her lawsuit, the blast knocked Ms. Jones off her feet, propelling her airborne “and thereby causing her serious, painful and permanent injuries to her head, back and entire body resulting in pain and suffering for which she underwent extensive medical care and treatment, at great cost and expense.”

The suits contend N-Line negligently broke a KGS pipeline while digging to install lawn sprinkler systems for residential use, and KGS breached its duty to protect the public from explosions resulting from its operation of underground facilities.  Last April, the Kansas Corporation Commission fined N-Line $5,000 and ordered Kansas Gas to develop an emergency response plan to deal with incidents in the future.

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