Total Petrochemicals France has been put under a manslaughter investigation over a blast at the Carling petrochemical plant that killed two people, as per Reuters. This month, an investigating judge in the city of Metz has put the French major under formal investigation for alleged manslaughter and unintentional injury in relation to the July 2009 explosion. The blast occurred when workers were attempting to restart a steam cracker, a furnace that processes oil derivative naphtha for making plastics.
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