- A blast in a chocolate plant killed 2 when there was a explosion in R. M. Palmer’s chocolate plant that caused several damages.
- The 1948’s company is a staple of Borough says Dean Murray.
Two people were killed and nine people are missing in Pennsylvania after an explosion at a chocolate factory on Friday caused serious harm.
How a Blast in a Chocolate Plant Killed 2
The explosion happened at the R. M. Palmer Co. plant where many others were injured, per Wayne Holben, Chief of Borough Police Department. Despite this, the number of injured is yet to be confirmed.
“It’s pretty leveled,” West Reading Borough Mayor Samantha Kaag said of the explosion site. “The building in the front, with the church and the apartments, the explosion was so big that it moved that building four feet forward.”
The explosion destroyed one building and affected another, including apartments, and sent smoke into the air just before 5 p.m. The cause of the blast that happened in the northwest of Philadelphia is still under investigation.
Tower Health spokesperson Jessica Bezler said that eight people have been taken to the hospital on Friday evening last week. Out of those eight two were admitted in fair condition while five others are being treated and would be released, another patient was transferred to another facility as per her email.
About RM Palmer Company Chocolate Plant
The company seems to be old and its website reveals that the company has been into manufacturing chocolate novelties and had 850 employees by now at its headquarters in West Reading. Kaag said that the people were moving back about a block away from the site but aren’t asked to evacuate.
He also further said that the officials weren’t in contact with the R. M. Palmer’s heads while Dean Murray said that the residents were displaced from the buildings which faced damage and the company which was operating since 1948 is a staple of the borough according to manager of West Reading Borough.
