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Plastics News, October, 2005

Formosa restarting Texas site after blast POINT COMFORT, TEXAS - Formosa Plastics Corp. USA is restarting production in Point Comfort after an Oct. 6 explosion and fire that injured 11 workers. The last fire resulting from the explosion was extinguished Oct. 12, the Livingston, N.J.-based firm said in an Oct.

13 news release. Damage was limited to one section of an ethylene and propylene production unit, officials said. The explosion occurred when a contract employee backed a forklift into a liquid propylene line, causing a break in a fitting or valve, company officials said. The propylene that was released then vaporized and traveled along the ground until it found an ignition source, they said. One employee remained hospitalized Oct. 12 in good...

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