A Lubbock fire marshal is joining a North Texas family in blaming corrugated stainless steel tubing for a fatal fire and explosion that claimed the life of their son. Brennen Teel was visiting friends ...

For three months, NBC 5 Investigates looked at the safety of flexible gas lines known as CSST, corrugated stainless steel tubing. It’s a product used in millions of newer homes and is approved for use ...

All gas piping materials, equipment, and systems are prone to damage from lightning strikes — though this is a rare occurrence. However, because of its thinner wall, yellow-jacketed corrugated ...

ROCKWALL, Texas, March 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brennen Teel Foundation praises NASFM for looking beyond the risk of CSST when lightning is present. Test results commissioned by NASFM of 120 volt ...

EXTON, Pa., June 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Omega Flex, Inc., (Nasdaq:OFLX) the preeminent international producer of quality engineered flexible metallic products, today announced it will transition ...

When a plumbing contractor installed flexible corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) in a livestock barn in order to supply propane to ceiling-mounted heaters, he had no reason to envision the ...

WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) - Reports of lightning-related fires and gas leaks in at least a dozen states have raised concerns about the use of flexible gas lines made of corrugated stainless steel tubing ...

Flexible gas lines have virtually replaced immobile iron pipes over the past 30 years. But the flimsier “corrugated stainless steel tubing” — commonly called CSST — can pose a much greater fire risk, ...

TracPipe® CounterStrike® corrugated stainless steel tubing (CSST) is based on the company’s existing TracPipe CSST product, but is engineered to significantly decrease the potential for ...