Flaws found in PG&E's record validation

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Flaws-found-in-PG-amp-E-s-record-validation-4784576.php

A Pacific Gas and Electric Co. engineer "mistakenly assumed" that parts of a major natural gas pipeline were safer than warranted during a lengthy records review aimed at reassuring the public in the aftermath of the 2010 San Bruno disaster, PG&E officials acknowledged.

PG&E made the admission in a filing to the state Public Utilities Commission, where administrative law judges have ordered a Friday hearing into the latest discrepancy in the utility's records to emerge from the Sept. 9, 2010, blast that killed eight people.

Regulators and federal investigators probing the explosion have cited widespread flaws in company records, which showed, among other things, that the pipe that ruptured in San Bruno was seamless. In fact, the pipe was riddled with flawed seam welds.