Japanese intergraded chemicals maker Tosoh has shut three vinyl chloride monomer manufacturing plants at its Nanyo complex in western Japan following a fire.
According to a company spokesman, a 52-year-old male worker is thought to have been killed when the fire broke out after an explosion.
Idemitsu Kosan has halted its ethylene supply to the facility following the incident fire.
The Nanyo complex has an annual production capacity of 1.2 million tons of vinyl chloride monomer, a material used to make plastic.
