The National Transportation Safety Board has released additional information and documents regarding the May 28, 2024, natural gas explosion of the Realty Building in downtown Youngstown.

Some of the new findings point to the fact that natural gas pipeline operators need to document abandoned natural gas pipelines accurately to prevent future incidents like the explosion in Youngstown that killed one and injured nine people inside the Chase Bank building.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, which oversaw Enbridge's excavation of 10 service lines that were marked as abandoned near the Realty Building just before the accident, found that two of the other service lines were still pressurized with gas.

After the accident, Enbridge investigated 5,951 other pipelines around the U.S. that

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