The hearth in Bandar Deyr, a port on the Gulf, broke out after welding triggered an explosion, official says.
At the very least three individuals have been killed and two others admitted to hospital after a welding accident led to an explosion and hearth at a chemical manufacturing facility in Iran, officers say.
The accident occurred shortly after 11am native time (07:30 GMT) on Wednesday in a methanol storage unit on the Kaveh Petrochemical Firm in Bandar Deyr, a metropolis within the southern Bushehr province, Iran’s state information company IRNA reported.
A fireplace broke out after welding on a barge on the web site ignited an explosion, Kourosh Dehghani, the provincial head of the disaster administration organisation, advised Iranian state tv.
He mentioned firefighters had contained the blaze and had been now working to chill the location. No additional casualties had been anticipated, he added.
Footage from the blaze carried on state media confirmed giant clouds of thick black smoke rising from the location, as firefighting items skilled their hoses on the hearth.
The chemical plant, located on a 200-hectare (494-acre) web site within the Gulf area, is a key producer of methanol, making as much as 2.3 million tonnes of the extremely flammable chemical annually, in line with its web site.
