Federal officials fined R.M. Palmer Co. over $44,000 for failing to evacuate a West Reading, Pennsylvania, factory before a natural gas explosion killed seven people.

Emergency personnel and heavy equipment work at the site of a deadly explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pa.,, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Rubinkam) AP.

WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania chocolate factory was fined more than $44,000 by the federal workplace safety agency on Thursday for failing to evacuate before a natural gas explosion ...

An explosion at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory kills at least 2 An explosion Friday night in a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pa., has killed at least two people and left several more missing.

Emergency personnel work at the site of a deadly explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pa., on March 24. According to a lawsuit filed Tuesday, R.M. Palmer ignored warnings of a gas ...

WEST READING, Pa. (AP) — An explosion at a chocolate factory in Pennsylvania on Friday killed three people and left four people missing, authorities said. One person was pulled alive from the ...

RELATED: Survivor pulled from rubble after PA chocolate factory explosion; 3 killed, 4 missing. A preliminary report on the explosion could be available in about three weeks, ...

Emergency personnel work at the site of a deadly explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pa., Friday, March 24, 2023. AP Patricia Borges is interviewed at Reading Hospital in West ...

WEST READING, Pa. (CBS) -- One person was found alive in the rubble and rescue efforts continue after an explosion at the R.M. Palmer Company chocolate factory in Berks County, Pennsylvania, local ...