The California Public Utilities Commission has issued its final report on the massive natural gas explosion that killed 8 people and destroyed 38 homes in San Bruno, CA, last September, concluding that the tragedy was the result of multiple failings among the management at Pacific Gas & Electric.
The report concludes that the pipeline rupture was “a consequence of multiple weaknesses in PG&E’s management and oversight of the safety of its gas transmission system,” and that the CPUC “did not have the resources to monitor PG&E’s performance in pipeline integrity management adequately or the organizational focus that would have elevated concerns about PG&E’s performance in a meaningful way,” according to a press release from the California Public Utilities Commission.
Read the entire report, or the executive summary, here.