One Worker Dead, Five Injured When the Colonial Pipeline in Rural Alabama Explodes
Contractors were working on the line “to restore system integrity” following a September gasoline leak.
Fires are still burning at the site of a gasoline pipeline explosion in Alabama on Oct. 31. A crew of contractors from L. E. Bell Construction was working on the Colonial Pipeline line in Shelby County around 3 p.m. when their equipment struck the line, causing the explosion. One worker was killed and five others were injured, four with serious burns.
