Leonel Rondon was killed in September 2018 after a control line on a century-old natural gas pipeline in Lawrence, Massachusetts, failed, detonating a home and sending its chimney crashing down onto the car he was sitting in.
The explosion that killed 18-year-old Rondon was one of several and, as it was later revealed, resulted from antiquated recordkeeping concerning the pipeline, which was owned and operated by Columbia Gas of Massachusetts, a then-subsidiary of NiSource.
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