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Chemicals present in fire after fatal plant explosion, listed in facility inventory don't raise red flags by themselves | News

CHARLESTON — 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.’s 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.

By-the-book explosion response still leaves some Belle residents concerned

An explosion at a Belle chemical plant provided locals a vivid reminder of the potential danger looming over their town. “I think sometimes people kind of get complacent, and think, ‘Hey, we’ve been good for a long time,’” said Belle Mayor David Fletcher. “’It’ll stay good.’” Recent years of relative quiet were shattered at 10:02 p.m. Tuesday, when the blast at Optima Chemical’s facility on the Chemours site killed plant worker John Gillenwater, 42, of Hurricane, and injured three others. Preliminary information indicates a 1,200-gallon metal dryer became overpressurized during a chemical drying product operation, according to Optima. The material in the dryer was a compound used for sanitation.

Chemicals present in fire after fatal plant explosion, listed in facility inventory don't raise red flags by themselves | News