CHARLESTON – A class-action lawsuit has been filed related to Tuesday’s explosion at a Kanawha Valley chemical plant that left one man dead, others injured and an entire area rocked by the blast.
Erica Powell of Chesapeake is the named plaintiff in the complaint filed December 10 by Charleston attorney Rusty Webb against Optima Belle Inc. Optima was operating as a tenant inside the Chemours plant in Belle. The explosion was caused by chlorinated dry bleach and methanol.
“Ms. Powell was literally shaking today thinking about the blast,” Webb told
The West Virginia Record after he filed the complaint in Kanawha Circuit Court. “She says her mom, who lives up that way, literally can’t be left along right now. It rocked their world.”