Oklahoma Natural Gas settles house explosion case for $1.01 million

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has approved a $1.01 million settlement with Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. in connection with a January house explosion.

Authorities said a faulty weld in a plastic natural gas pipeline led to the Jan. 2 explosion in an Oklahoma City neighborhood. One person suffered burns and two people were treated for breathing problems.

The settlement with ONG, a division of Tulsa-based ONE Gas Inc., was approved Thursday. The utility agreed to the settlement but didn’t admit to guilt, according to the Journal Record.

The commission’s pipeline safety division found the company failed to conduct surveillance on eight similar pipeline leaks, failed to investigate the cause of those leaks and failed to perform the proper survey the day before the explosion.

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