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The aftermath of the Optima Belle explosion. The chemical safety agency released new details from its investigation of the Optima Belle plant explosion.
The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Identification Board (CSB) offered new details this week on its investigation of an explosion at Optima Belle chemical plant in Belle, WV last December.
A blast occurred in an industrial dryer unit at the facility on December 8, 2020 as a process was underway to remove water from chlorinated dry bleach. The work being performed at the time of the incident was a trial batch process for the Clearon Corporation.
One worker was killed. Projectiles from the blast ended up on a highway near the facility. A resident was also injured by a projectile.
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CHARLESTON â Chlorinated dry bleach and methanol were present in a fire that burned for two hours after a fatal explosion at the Optima Chemical facility on the Chemours Co.âs site in Belle, West Virginia, on Tuesday, Dec. 8, according to emergency responders.
An emergency and hazardous chemical inventory that Optima Belle LLC submitted to the West Virginia Emergency Management Division as required by the division for a reporting period spanning all of 2019 lists 18 chemicals, half of which were listed as explosive or flammable.
Methanol was one of the flammable chemicals, and CDB 63, a chlorinated dry bleach product that emergency responders said was present in the fire, was not listed at all.
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