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Blast Kills Six At South Korean Firm

by Jean-François Tremblay
July 13, 2015 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 93, Issue 28

Six contract workers died in an explosion at a polyvinyl chloride plant owned by Hanwha Chemical in Ulsan, South Korea. The unexplained blast occurred at the wastewater storage facility of the 240,000-metric-ton-per-year PVC plant. The plant will remain idle until government investigators allow operations to resume, Hanwha says.

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