2003 Etobicoke gas explosion

The 2003 Etobicoke gas explosion was a disaster which occurred on April 24, 2003, after a backhoe operated by Enbridge contractor Precision breached a pipeline on Bloor Street in the Etobicoke district of Toronto, Ontario. The resulting explosion destroyed a nearby two-story mixed commercial and residential building killing seven persons and injured another four. Enbridge and several other companies were fined for the disaster in 2011. The explosion was the worst pipeline disaster in Canada since the LaSalle Heights Disaster in 1965. A memorial garden was dedicated at the site of the explosion in 2008.