YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) -- A report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board says that the May 2024 explosion at the Realty Building was caused by a crew that cut into an active gas line that was accidentally labeled inactive.

The May 27, 2024, explosion caused the death of Akil Drake, 27, who worked at the Chase Bank branch inside the building, injured several other people and led to the building being demolished.

The report said a scrap removal crew in the basement cut into an active Enbridge, Inc., service line that had been marked as abandoned years earlier by Dominion Energy, which owned the line previously. It was not marked as containing natural gas despite containing natural gas.

A four-person crew for a firm contracted by the city was removing scrap from th

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