Puget Sound Energy has paid a settlement of over $8 million to the family of a Bellevue woman who died from a natural gas explosion. Frances Schmitz, 68, was badly burned in the explosion and died later of her injuries. The settlement ends a lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court by her three children.
State investigators found that corrosion in a gas line caused the leak and that an electrical device designed to repel corrosion had been wired backward.
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