Incident Report Subject: Spain - Explosion at Chemical Plant in Tarragona Repsol as a Result of the Ignition of a Leak of Ethylene Date of Email report: Mon 11/11/2013 Report Detail:
At 01:45 hours on the morning of Sunday November 10th 2013 there has been an explosion followed by fire at the Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE ) plant of Repsol Quimica as a result of loss of ethylene. There have been no personal injury or any involvement in the rest of the facilities. The company has activated its Self-Protection Plan and site operations and emergency response teams have isolated the area and left remaining fuel to burn. Company Fire-fighters have worked the incident protecting surrounding infrastructure and the fire burned itself out after one hour. The Fire Brigade have also moved to the explosion site to conduct overhaul and inspection of the affected area along with government fire-fighters. At approx. 02:50 hours the situation was normalized and emergency was stood down. The Company has opened an internal investigation to determine the cause of the incident. Civil Protection Authorities triggered the public warning alert at 2:15 pm after receiving the first assessments from the fire-fighters and disabled this at 3:15 pm . The explosion has not been a risk to the public and has not been necessary to establish containment.
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