Daily News | West Reading chocolate factory victims died of blast injuries, thermal burns, coroner says
At the time of the blast, residents rallied around families of the missing, lighting candles and reciting prayers. Many were struck by the location of the blast, a factory known for making thousands of chocolate bunnies for Easter. Some former employees described Palmer as a good place to work, a place that gave back to the community.
Reading resident Xiorky D. Nuñez, 30, was the youngest of the victims and is believed to have died of thermal burns. The victims who are believed to have died of blast injuries include: Reading resident Diana M. Cedeño, 44; Ephrata resident Amy S. Sandoe, 49; Reading resident Judith Lopez-Moran, 55; Reading resident Domingo Cruz, 60; Marion Township resident Michael D. Breedy, 62; and Upper Providence Township resident Susan H. Halvonik, 63.
This month, Lopez-Moran’s family filed a lawsuit against the factory, and gas utility company UGI in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. “The gas leak at the factory and the horrific explosion it caused was foreseeable, predictable, and preventable,” reads the wrongful death suit that alleges workers reported a natural gas smell to the company to no avail.
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