Pollution
Humain
Environnement
Economique

In a warehouse of a company specialised in agricultural treatment products, an operational error lead to a violent reaction resulting from the mixing of potassium permanganate with sulphur. Two 1 tonne containers caught fire and emitted toxic fumes. Some containers had lost their identification labels following incidents of flooding with 50 cm of water in and around the site a few days before the accident.