On Sunday, 3rd April at 5:37 am, after a thud originating from the compounds workshop, fire was detected in the sales offices abutting a product packing and palletization bay inside a plastics plant. This workshop had been shut down since Friday evening, and activity was scheduled to resume Monday morning. The plant’s internal emergency plan was activated. In-house fire-fighters as well as external fire-fighters quickly arrived at the scene and brought the fire under control by 6:20 am. The entire workshop was electrically isolated; all combustibles in the vicinity were evacuated, as were LPG and acetylene bottles. The fire was extinguished at 7 am, and the internal emergency plan lifted at 7:20. The fire destroyed 200 sq.m of sales office space along with the parking area for 2 forklifts. Flames had touched some of the products stored behind the offices. A gas bottle on one of the forklifts stationed alongside the offices exploded, which would explain the thud that led to detecting the fire. Debris was found 15 m from the forklift. An electrical malfunction at the level of the offices could have caused this fire. The quantity of PVC products destroyed was limited (to a few hundred kg); moreover, only a small quantity of toxic gases stemming from PVC decomposition was actually released. All fire extinction water was recovered in a storage pit. No environmental impacts were detected.