Crews Recover the Remains of 6 of the 9 Workers Missing After Washington State Chemical Tank Rupture
Crews are still recovering victims and monitoring contamination after the tank rupture spilled more than 500,000 gallons of white liquor, officials said.
- On Thursday, crews recovered six of nine missing workers at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company in Longview, Washington, bringing the confirmed death toll to 11 following Tuesday's chemical tank rupture.
- The failure released more than 500,000 gallons of white liquor, a highly corrosive chemical mixture used in kraft milling, with hazardous conditions continuing to complicate recovery efforts at the site.
- Authorities confirmed the spill has not contaminated air or drinking water supplies in Longview, though some chemicals reached the Columbia River with no noticeable effect according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
- Families are mourning victims including 26-year-old CJ Doran, described as the 'spiritual leader of their family,' while the Nippon Paper Group offered 'deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathies to the bereaved families.'
- This incident ranks among the deadliest U.S. workplace accidents in recent decades, and while the Washington state Department of Ecology develops cleanup plans, the cause of the tank rupture remains under investigation.
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The U.S. authorities found six new bodies after the leak of chemicals in a factory in Washington State, resulting in eight deaths and three missing.
Remains of six workers found after 3.4m-litre chemical tank implosion
At least eight other people, including a responding firefighter, were injured after the tank ruptured and spilled close to two million litres of a highly corrosive chemical mixture known as "white liquor".
The number of confirmed deaths thus increases to eight. However, the fire brigade had already announced the day before that it no longer expects to find survivors.
After the accident on the site of a packaging company in the north-west of the USA, the fire brigade has killed six of the nine workers who are still considered to be missing.
Rescue operations continue after chemical tank collapse at paper factory – Three workers remain missing and presumed dead
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