Blowing Your Stack: Ohio Demolition Goes Bad As Children Run To Escape Falling Power Lines

The decision to use explosives to take down the 275 foot smokestack of Edison’s Mad River Power Plant in Ohio seemed like the perfect event for children until . . .

I am a bit surprised that children were invited to stand under power lines when that was clearly the primary risk associated with this demolition.

There are no reports of injuries, but such an event would be rife with potential tort liability.

Jonathan Turley