{"id":8391,"date":"2012-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shokubai.mediawars.ne.jp\/en\/news\/201209298391\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T06:49:35","slug":"explosion-and-fire-at-himeji-plant","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/news\/201209298391\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion and Fire at Himeji Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD [Tokyo Stock Exchange &#8211; TOKSE:4114.T] (\u201cNIPPON SHOKUBAI\u201d) announced that at 14:40 on September 29 an explosion and fire occurred at acrylic acid tank in its Himeji Plant.<br>As a result of this accident, one person died and several others were injured. NIPPON SHOKUBAI extends heartfelt sympathy and sincerest apologies to all persons and families affected by the accident and to all our stakeholders. <br><br>Currently available information as of 22:00 September 29 is as follows;<br><br>1. Address and facilities involved in the accident <br>Acrylic acid-tank, NIPPON SHOKUBAI Himeji Plant<br>992-1 Aza-Nishioki, Okihama, Aboshi-ku, Himeji, Hyogo 671-1282        , JAPAN<br><br>2. Time and date of the accident<br>14:40 September 29, 2012<br>22:00  under fire fighting<br><br>3. Time line<br>under investigation<br><br>4. Casualties\/Injured<br>The dead: 1 person (firefighter of the Aboshi fire station)<br>The injured: under investigation<br><br>5. Damage to facilities<br>under investigation<br><br>6. Causes\/Preventive measures<br>Causes of the accident are under investigation by authorities. NIPPON SHOKUBAI formed task forces and does its best to investigate causes of the accident.<br>NIPPON SHOKUBAI will apply appropriate preventive measures as soon as the causes of the explosion will be clarified.<br><br><br>Contact<br>Investor &amp; Public Relations Dept., <br>NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD.<br>TEL: +81-3-3506-7477<br>E-mail: shokubai@n.shokubai.co.jp<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cbox\">\n<!--_image_-->\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"file\">[Files]<br><ul><li><a href=\"\/en\/upimage\/file1_0035.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Explosion and Fire at Himeji Plant<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIPPON SHOKUBAI CO., LTD [Tokyo Stock Exchange &#8211; TOKSE:4114.T] (\u201cNIPPON SHOKUBAI\u201d) announced that at 14: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"cat_news":[],"class_list":["post-8391","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":{"link_type":"detail","contact_info":"none","is_important":false,"is_show_top":false,"is_noindex":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8391\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cat_news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shokubai.co.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_news?post=8391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}