Probe continues on Mitsubishi Chemical's ethylene plant fire

Probe continues on Mitsubishi Chemical's ethylene plant fire

MITO, Japan - Fire investigators inspect the Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. ethylene plant in Kamisu, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Dec. 24, two days after a fire gutted a cracking furnace used to refine naphtha and propylene. Four workers died in the blaze, which burned for 12 hours on Dec. 22.

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