{"id":450543,"date":"2026-09-28T23:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450543\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T23:24:11","slug":"2-workers-hurt-during-atmos-pipeline-work-in-design-district-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450543\/","title":{"rendered":"2 workers hurt during Atmos pipeline work in Design District area"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two contract workers were injured, one critically, while conducting Atmos Energy<\/a>\u2019s \u201croutine maintenance\u201d work Monday on a pipeline near a Dallas Design District apartment complex.<\/p>\n

Dallas Fire-Rescue spokesman Jason Evans said crews were dispatched shortly after 3:45 a.m. to an incident near the Alexan Riveredge Apartments.<\/p>\n

In an emailed statement, Atmos said its contractor was performing maintenance\u00a0on a pipeline near the complex when they experienced a \u201cworksite event.\u201d Evans said the pipeline \u201csomehow exploded during the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dallas Police Department officers responded about 4:07 a.m. to the 100 block of Turtle Creek Boulevard to assist with traffic control, according to DPD spokesman Jonathan Maner.<\/p>\n

Two workers near the explosion were taken to a hospital, where one remains listed in critical condition\u00a0as of Monday afternoon while the other has already been discharged, Evans said.<\/p>\n

According to Evans, there were no other reported injuries and no impact to the apartment building or neighboring businesses.<\/p>\n

The maintenance involved testing the line with air and not natural gas, the company said, and there was no damage to the pipeline or impact on\u00a0natural gas access to the area.<\/p>\n

NBC5 reported<\/a> the apartment complex was evacuated in early September due to a gas leak. Atmos didn\u2019t comment to\u00a0The Dallas Morning News on whether the incidents were related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two contract workers were injured, one critically, while conducting Atmos Energy\u2019s \u201croutine maintenance\u201d work Monday on a pipeline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1638,102,104,103,87998,89138,95961],"class_list":["post-450543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-brief","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tp-design-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}