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California’s Largest Utility Allegedly Falsified Safety Records After A Major Pipeline Explosion

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Regulators are accusing one of California’s largest public utilities of falsifying safety data records shortly after the utility company was fined millions of dollars for…
Regulators are accusing one of California’s largest public utilities of falsifying safety data records shortly after the utility company was fined millions of dollars for a massive natural gas explosion in San Francisco.
A California Public Utilities Commission investigation found that the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) lacked enough employees to fulfill requests to document natural gas pipelines. PG&E pushed supervisors to complete the work, leading staff to falsify data from 2012 to 2017.
“Utility falsification of safety related records is a serious violation of law and diminishes our trust in the utility’s reports on their progress,” commission President Michael Picker noted in a statement Friday. “These findings are another example of why we are investigating PG&E’s safety culture.

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