A lawsuit was filed July 9 in Fulton County State Court by the widow of one of the workers who was killed and by one of the men injured in the October 2016 explosion of a Colonial Pipeline in east Alabama. (Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP)
The widow of a man who died in a 2016 gas pipeline explosion in Alabama has sued Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline and an engineering inspection contractor for wrongful death and negligence.
Among the claims brought by the woman—and by another man who was seriously injured—is that a project inspector for Colonial did not show up on the day of the explosion. Instead, the plaintiffs said, the inspector told a subordinate to go ahead with the excavation, even though documentation concerning the pipeline’s whereabouts he requested had not been provided.
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