AMARILLO, Texas (AP) _ Two pipeline companies are defending themselves after a federal official said the lines weren’t marked before two deadly explosions last month in Texas.
Two workers were killed after a bulldozer hit a pipeline June 8 near Darrouzett in the Panhandle. One drill operator died in the June 7 blast near Cleburne in north Texas.
DCP Midstream, the Panhandle pipeline’s owner, says it can’t find evidence the construction company followed notification procedures before the project started.
But Nick Thomas, the construction company owner, says several companies have worked in that excavation pit for 25 years and the