WEST READING, Pa. -- Seven people are dead and several others are injured after an explosion at a chocolate factory Friday in West Reading, Pennsylvania, police and city officials said.

With the litigation moving forward in Philadelphia, Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Andrew Duffy said, “Plaintiffs will continue to aggressively pursue discovery and prove that this devastating ...

Nearly two years after an explosion at a West Reading chocolate factory that claimed the lives of seven workers, the federal agency investigating the blast has issued its final report on the tragedy.

PHILADELPHIA — The National Transportation Safety Board this week made public its final report on the 2023 natural gas explosion at a West Reading chocolate factory that killed seven employees.

WEST READING, Pa. (WHTM) — The National Transportation Safety Board released their final report this week on a deadly explosion at a Berks County chocolate factory in 2023. The explosion rocked ...

The Berks County Coroner’s Office is searching for the next of kin of a Reading man. William A. Whetstone, 70, was found dead ...

West Reading chocolate factory explosion: Efforts shift from rescue and recovery to cleanup and investigation: 'This is really just the start' Wanted in Berks, July 20, 2025.

Emergency personnel work at the site of a deadly explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pa., Friday, March 24, 2023. ( Ben Hasty /Reading Eagle via AP) Pennsylvania News ...

The probable cause of a 2023 deadly natural gas explosion in Pennsylvania at chocolate maker R.M. Palmer Co. was degradation of a retired 1982 Aldyl A polyethylene service tee line that had a ...