Hello and welcome to the details of One dead, three injured in explosion at a West Virginia chemical plant and now with the details
BELLE, Dec 10 — One person died and three others were injured in an explosion and a fire that occurred in a chemical plant in Belle, West Virginia, on Tuesday night, officials said.
The incident happened after 10pm EST (0300 GMT on Wednesday) at Optima Chemicals Co, a tenant on the Chemours Co site in Belle, Chemours said in a statement.
Following the incident, local county officials in Belle ordered everyone in a 3.2 km radius around the plant to remain at home, but the order was lifted a few hours later.
“Emergency responders have evaluated the scene and have determined that an all clear can be issued,” the Kanawha County Commission said in a statement earlier in the day.
The shelter-in-place order affected about 2,000 people, Jennifer Herrald, manager at the Kanawha County Commission, told Reuters.
Officials believed chlorinated dry bleach and methanol were the chemicals involved in the explosion, Kanawha County Commissioner Kent Carper told WCHS & WVAH television station.
“The cause of the explosion is not determined by Kanawha County. Other agencies will determine that and it is up to those agencies and the company to release that information,” Karper's office told Reuters.
Belle is about 18 km south of West Virginia state capital Charleston. — Reuters
These were the details of the news One dead, three injured in explosion at a West Virginia chemical plant for this day. We hope that we have succeeded by giving you the full details and information. To follow all our news, you can subscribe to the alerts system or to one of our different systems to provide you with all that is new.
It is also worth noting that the original news has been published and is available at Malay Mail and the editorial team at AlKhaleej Today has confirmed it and it has been modified, and it may have been completely transferred or quoted from it and you can read and follow this news from its main source.
