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Nebraska Natural Gas Company Pathfinder Hotel Explosion and Fire, Fremont, Nebraska, January 10, 1976
At 9:32 a.m. on January 10, 1976, gas which was leaking into the Pathfinder Hotel in Fremont, Nebraska, ignited. The gas was leaking from a 2-inch plastic pipe which had pulled out of its compression coupling; the gas seeped into the hotel because it had been capped above by frozen earth and a concrete road surface. The hotel exploded and fire ensued; the explosion and fire destroyed the hotel, damaged nearby buildings, and broke windows within a one-block radius. Thirty-nine persons were injured and 20 persons were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the contraction, due to cold temperatures, of a 2-inch polyethylene plastic main within a 4-inch casing. The contraction of the plastic main caused the pipe to pull out of the inadequately connected compression coupling.
Nebraska Natural Gas Company Pathfinder Hotel Explosion and Fire, Fremont, Nebraska, January 10, 1976
At 9:32 a.m. on January 10, 1976, gas which was leaking into the Pathfinder Hotel in Fremont, Nebraska, ignited. The gas was leaking from a 2-inch plastic pipe which had pulled out of its compression coupling; the gas seeped into the hotel because it had been capped above by frozen earth and a concrete road surface. The hotel exploded and fire ensued; the explosion and fire destroyed the hotel, damaged nearby buildings, and broke windows within a one-block radius. Thirty-nine persons were injured and 20 persons were killed. The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the contraction, due to cold temperatures, of a 2-inch polyethylene plastic main within a 4-inch casing. The contraction of the plastic main caused the pipe to pull out of the inadequately connected compression coupling.
Nebraska Natural Gas Company Pathfinder Hotel Explosion and Fire, Fremont, Nebraska, January 10, 1976
1976
30 pages
Report
No indication
English
Pipeline Transportation , Gas pipelines , Accident investigations , Hotels , Leakage , Ignition , Explosions , Fires , Death , Plastics , Pipes(Tubes) , Couplings , Polyethylene , Nebraska , Pipeline accidents
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