11. The pipe ruptured and exploded early Saturday, sending a fireball roaring into the campsite of two families. 12. At the time of the secondary piping rupture , 105 workers were preparing for periodic inspections to commence. 13. Typically, when a pipe ruptures , the water pressure immediately drops elsewhere and other pipes are not damaged. 14. Just last year, a water main broke at 40th Street and Seventh Avenue near where the pipe ruptured Saturday. 15. Two deaths in 1986 also resulted from a construction accident; both construction workers were killed when a steam pipe ruptured . 16. Because of the lack of records, the investigators were unable to reconstruct why the pipe ruptured inside the salt dome cavern. 17. 1925 : While asleep in an Indianapolis hotel room, a gas pipe ruptured in his room, with the fumes nearly killing him. 18. Duke Power's Oconee nuclear plant has been out of service since Sept . 24 because of a steam pipe rupture that burned seven workers. 19. Five people died _ four almost instantly _ when a corroded cooling pipe ruptured , spewing boiling water and superheated steam on workers at the plant. 20. Some 852, 000 homes were still without gas for cooking and heating because supply had been turned off over fears of dangerous pipe ruptures and leaks.
