BLAW 3201 Chapter : Crews V Hollenbach
Document Summary
Facts: on march 23, 1996, an employee of honcho & sons named john hollenbach was digging a hole at an excavation site when he struck and severed a natural gas line owned by. The police and fire departments were not initially notified, and in fact were not aware of a gas leak until much later when someone a mile and a half away smelled gas and called the authorities. Over two hours after the emergency authorities were notified, washington. The natural gas leak had saturated the nearby soil and resulted in the evacuation of the nearby neighborhood. Washington gas sent out a team to contain the. Volatile leak under the supervision of foreman lee james crews, who had been a gas man for over twenty years. While working to repair the ruptured line, an explosion occurred that severely injured crews. Crews and his wife filed suit against hollenbach and others in a maryland trial.
