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VIJAYAWADA: Taking a serious view of the gas leak at LG Polymers in Visakhapatnam that claimed 12 lives, the state government is known to have summoned the administration of the South Korean plant along with a team of experts and told them to cooperate with the mishap investigation.
Sources said the government also ordered LG Polymers to retrieve the styrene monomer and other raw materials that the company was storing at the Visakhapatnam port and at the factory. “With the Group of Ministers and officials led by the Chief Secretary conducting an investigation of Visakhapatnam, we feel that it is unfair for the administration (LG Polymers) to appear in a video conference while sitting in Seoul, and we have called them to Visakhapatnam.” A source associated with the investigation into the matter told TNIE.
Claiming that management was told to come to Visakhapatnam with its team of experts, the sources said the company is being pressured as the government is taking the issue seriously. “In addition to the four tanks at the factory, we learned that the company has two tanks of material at the Vizag port, and we told them to send all the material back to where it was brought,” the source added.
“Since the investigation into the gas leak is ongoing and there are no possibilities to operate the factory, we cannot let them keep the material as we do not trust them after the incident,” the source said. Claiming that the temperature of the remaining five tankers remains in the safety zone (20-25 degrees Celsius), sources said the temperature of the tank from which the gas leaked dropped to 80 degrees Celsius on Saturday night. Although the temperature should be 20 degrees Celsius according to the standards, anything below 100 degrees Celsius is considered safe since the boiling point of the styrene monomer is between 135 and 145 degrees Celsius, he added.
Crown testing for victims
As physical distancing standards were violated after the gas leak, victims and others in the region will be screened for coronaviruses in the next two weeks, Andhra Medical College principal Dr. PV Sudhakar said.
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