Lawsuit: Chocolate Factory Ignored Warning Before Deadly Blast

Lawsuit: Chocolate Factory Ignored Warning Before Deadly Blast
Emergency personnel work at the site of a deadly explosion at a chocolate factory in West Reading, Pa., on March 25, 2023. Ben Hasty/Reading Eagle via AP
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A Pennsylvania candy-maker ignored warnings of a gas leak at its chocolate factory and bears responsibility for a subsequent explosion that killed seven workers and injured several others, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.

The family of Judith “Judy” Lopez-Moran, a 55-year-old mother of three, filed what their lawyers called the first wrongful-death suit against R.M. Palmer Co. after the March 24 blast in West Reading.