Pemex worker dies from petrochemical plant fire
2/29/2016 12:00:00 AM
A worker was killed last Friday after a fire broke out at a petrochemical plant in southeastern Mexico jointly controlled by Mexico's state-run Pemex and chemicals company Mexichem, according to a report from news agency Reuters.
In a statement, Pemex said Jaime Cisneros was badly burned by the fire, which took place in the incinerator area of Petroquimica Mexicana de Vinilo (PMV) in the Gulf state of Veracruz.
He later died in the hospital.
Pemex said the plant, which produces vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), was operating normally after the blaze.
The cause of the fire was not yet known.
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