Polythene cover on manway possibly causes fire

After the days jobs of partially unloading catalyst from a reactor was completed, contractors observed the weather was cloudy and covered the manhole opening with a polythene cover. Some time later a flash fire occurred inside the reactor, possibly due to residual vapours from remaining catalyst ignited by the static electricity generation from the polythene cover.


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