In May, there was a gas pipeline explosion that destroyed several homes and put 3 different people into the hospital. One of the people injured in the explosion was a 77 year old woman who died in mid July from all the injuries she received in accident. State officials have now come back in to inspect Atmos Energy because of the events that occurred and have found a number of violations that are tied to the explosion that happened in McKinney in May.

Atmos Energy as well as their subcontractor are currently looking at up to $80,000 in fines because of the regulations that were found broken. The company has yet to state exactly what the violations were or how they were being taken care of. Each violation has a maximum fine of $10,000 which currently puts them at about 80 violations. They also have 30 days to respond to the violations and then will be forced to pay all fines.