Sentences with phrase «gas line explosion»

Until such time as those lines are replaced, in some parts of the country there remains a major risk of gas line explosion.

Well look at the recent gas line explosion in San Bruno, California to see just how wonderful our existing infrastructure in California is, or look at the state of our water system, which is antiquated and in dire need of more water storage to take care of the needs of an increasing population.

A likely answer is that California is so focused and busy on environmental projects that redistribute wealth to various constituencies that they no longer are concerned about public safety (the San Bruno natural gas line explosion in San Francisco in 2010, the constant blow ups of water pipes under the streets of Los Angeles, the retrofitting of the San Onofre Nuke Plant, so that it could be a peaker plant that could ramp up and down to back up intermittent green power, failed and the plant was shut down eventually resulting in the South West Blackout in 2011).

The exact same thing could happen here with a gas line explosion.»

BELVIDERE, Ill. (AP)-- A gas line explosion rocked a technology plant in northern Illinois Monday, sending trembles through buildings as far as a mile away.

Car accidents and gas line explosions are examples of property risk.

Even road construction car accidents caused by sudden water main explosions, gas line explosions, or other non-workplace negligence may qualify.

Car accidents and gas line explosions are examples of property risk.

Not exact matches

If not, more catastrophic failures similar to the Minneapolis I - 35W Bridge Collapse in 2007 and the San Bruno, Calif., gas transmission line explosion in September of 2010 could occur.

The explosion, investigators say, was caused by plumbers damaging a gas line that was being improperly siphoned to feed an excess number of units.

In one of the more recent gas explosions, which occurred two years ago, eight people were killed in Harlem after a line ruptured.

Photographs of wreckage — buckling bridges, gas explosions, detritus bred by both neglect and natural disaster — line the ramp in the Bronx Museum's lobby, offering a provocative if fleeting footnote to the subtitle of its current exhibition: Gordon Matta - Clark: Anarchitect.

Additionally, the gas line in the surrounding neighborhoods was turned off to prevent an explosion.

Jurors also found the company guilty last year for violating federal safety regulations for its natural gas lines before the explosion.

Rupturing a gas line could result in an explosion and / or fire; depending on the size of the fire it can threaten to burn down any nearby buildings.