{"id":87363,"date":"2023-12-25T03:20:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T03:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/at-least-13-dead-and-dozens-injured-in-furnace-explosion-at-nickel-factory-in-indonesia-world-news\/"},"modified":"2023-12-25T03:20:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T03:20:18","slug":"at-least-13-dead-and-dozens-injured-in-furnace-explosion-at-nickel-factory-in-indonesia-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/at-least-13-dead-and-dozens-injured-in-furnace-explosion-at-nickel-factory-in-indonesia-world-news\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 13 dead and dozens injured in furnace explosion at nickel factory in Indonesia | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2>At least 13 dead and dozens injured in furnace explosion at nickel factory in Indonesia | World News<\/h2>\n<p>At least 13 dead and dozens injured in furnace explosion at nickel factory in Indonesia | World News<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3.365dm.com\/23\/12\/70x70\/skynews-indonesia-nickel-factory_6402999.jpg?20231224063935\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>At least 13 people have been killed and dozens injured after a smelter furnace explosion at a nickel factory in Indonesia, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>The blast at Morowali industrial park on Sulawesi Island took place during furnace maintenance at around 5.30am local time.<\/p>\n<p>About 38 people were taken to hospital, police said, some in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>At least five Chinese and eight Indonesian workers died when the furnace suddenly exploded while they were repairing it, Central Sulawesi police chief Agus Nugroho said.<\/p>\n<p>The blast was so powerful it demolished the furnace and damaged parts of the side walls of the building, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are working to determine whether negligence by the company led to the deaths, the police chief said.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion is the latest in a series of deadly accidents at Chinese-owned nickel smelting plants in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Nickel has become increasingly crucial for Indonesia, the world&#8217;s biggest nickel producer, with billions of dollars of global investment flowing in after the government banned exports of unprocessed ore in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Nickel is a key component in global battery production for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from Sky News:<br \/>Iranian drone behind attack on chemical tanker, Pentagon says<br \/>Eight Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-article-widget sdc-article-image\">\n<figure class=\"sdc-article-image__figure\">\n<div class=\"sdc-article-image__wrapper\" data-aspect-ratio=\"16\/9\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ui-media-caption\">\n        <span class=\"u-hide-visually\">Image:<\/span><br \/>\n        <span class=\"ui-media-caption__caption-text\">Morowali industrial park on Sulawesi Island. Pic: @yaniarsim<br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The accident happened at PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sincerely apologise for this incident and we are working closely with authorities to investigate what caused the accident,&#8221; company spokesperson Deddy Kurniawan said.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers extinguished the fire and evacuated workers after a nearly four-hour operation, he added.<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation showed there were explosive liquids at the bottom of the furnace that triggered a fire and explosion in nearby oxygen cylinders.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631\" href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/at-least-12-dead-and-dozens-injured-in-smelter-furnace-explosion-in-indonesia-local-media-reports-13037236\">\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lenkaed.com\" title=\"\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631\" rel=\"dofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u0623\u062e\u0628\u0627\u0631<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"At least 13 dead and dozens injured in furnace explosion at nickel factory in Indonesia | World News\" href=\"\/\">At least 13 dead and dozens injured in furnace explosion at nickel factory in Indonesia | World News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 13 dead and dozens injured in furnace explosion at nickel factory in Indonesia | World News At least 13 dead and dozens injured in furnace explosion at nickel factory in Indonesia | World News At least 13 people have been killed and dozens injured after a smelter furnace explosion at a nickel factory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7711],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7711"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}