A McCall Commercial Fencing official blames haste for the natural gas leak that shut down much of downtown Bristol on Tuesday.
Company Vice President Brad Sorrow was supposed to have called underground utility regulator Tennessee One-Call for permission to dig in advance. That way, his construction crew would know where the danger was when digging fence posts behind the Kil’n Time pottery shop.
“The ball was dropped,” Sorrow said by telephone Tuesday.
