‘Safety is a core value,’ says a sign outside DuPont in an undated photo. The company announced Saturday night that a chemical leak killed four employees.
Four workers at a DuPont chemical plant in Texas are dead after a methyl mercaptan spill.
Residents in the La Porte area could smell the putrid chemical likened to rotten cabbage on the southwestern wind early Saturday morning as it leaked from the production facility near Houston.
A leaky valve first reported at 4 a.m. local time is responsible for killing four employees, DuPont confirmed in a statement, and hospitalizing another.
Employees contained the leak after two hours, but the death of four employees wasn’t confirmed until 12 hours later.