An
August 24, 1996, Danielle Smalley and Jason Stone were killed by an
explosion near Kemp, TX. A spark from the ignition in her truck ignited
a cloud of butane gas which had escaped from a ruptured pipeline nearby.
Company officials blamed corrosion for the pipeline's failure.
3:26
p.m. - Koch Industries, Inc. 8" pipeline ruptures under Oak Circle
roadway, releasing a cloud of butane gas.
Gas
cloud drifts down along creek bed.
Smalley
and Stone leave home after smelling gas, heading to a neighbor's house
to call 911.
Smalley's
truck stalls near creek bed, surrounded by butane cloud. As Smalley
tries restarting the truck, a spark from the ignition ignites the
cloud of gas, causing the deadly explosion.
