Explosion in Henan Killed Seven
Year:2009 ISSUE:22
COLUMN:HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENT
Click:189    DateTime:Aug.06,2009
Explosion in Henan Killed Seven    

An explosion happened in a chemical factory in the morning of July 15th, killing seven people and leaving another nine badly injured in hospital in Yanshi of Henan province.
    Liu Shangjin, acting mayor of Yanshi city, ordered in the afternoon of the same day an investigation into the blast incident descended in Henan Luoran Co., Ltd., a private enterprise mainly engaged in the production and sales of p-nitrophenyl, a kind of dye intermediate.
    Liu said that a fire in a warehouse with unknown origin had caused the explosion of stock tanks which contained about 10 tons of chlorobenzene.
    The accident has not caused pollution on surrounding environment, according to the local environment protection organization.