Overview
- Investigators’ leading theory holds that a punctured IBC of peroxide leaked onto wooden pallets, setting off a slow reaction that later ignited.
- Employee accounts describe a rushed, insufficient cleanup that left the pallets soaked until flames erupted around 20:52 inside Logischem’s warehouse.
- Reporting indicates peroxide, red phosphorus and white phosphorus were kept together in the same building without a containment tray to catch spills.
- Videos captured a red smoke plume and a blast felt up to 15 kilometers away, with at least 22 people injured and damage across Carlos Spegazzini.
- Forensic teams have finished on‑site sampling as broader analyses continue under the local prosecutor’s office, judicial authorities have confirmed red phosphorus at the origin site, and new aerial imagery shows a large crater.