{"id":142738,"date":"2026-03-19T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142738\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:26:10","slug":"pa-regulators-seek-2-6m-in-penalties-following-deadly-2023-chocolate-factory-explosion-in-west-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142738\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. regulators seek $2.6M in penalties following deadly 2023 chocolate factory explosion in West Reading, Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767787749_197_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 19, 2026 12:58PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Pa. regulators seek penalties following deadly 2023 chocolate factory explosion\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">WEST READING, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has filed a complaint against gas distributor UGI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It&#8217;s in connection with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/west-reading-explosion-victims-identified-chocolate-factory-on-fire-pa\/13026988\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadly chocolate factory explosion in West Reading<\/a>, Berks County in March of 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The PUC is seeking $2.6 million in penalties for alleged safety violations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Seven workers were killed and ten others injured in the explosion at the R.M. Palmer Company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Investigators say a natural gas leak from an old pipeline connection allowed gas to build up inside the building, where it was ignited by an unknown source.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, March 19, 2026 12:58PM WEST READING, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has filed a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[65274,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-142738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-65274","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}