Overview
- The Rhône prefecture reported a second fatality on Friday, four days after the blast at the Saint-Fons facility.
- The employee who died Friday was 55, according to a CFDT representative, while a 47-year-old colleague died on Tuesday.
- Two other workers from the plant’s pilot workshop remain hospitalized with serious burns.
- The installation is classified Seveso high-threshold in the Lyon area’s industrial corridor known as the “vallée de la chimie.”
- Officials have not made findings public; firefighters said an explosion in a laboratory was followed by a fire in a 600-square-meter building.