Le Anh Thau and Nguyen Van Phuc of Petrolimex Construction Company No.5, Mai Huu Phuoc and Le Duc Chan of the Zone 5 Petrol Company, and deputy director of Da Nang’s Petrol Base Depot, Pham Dieu, face a charge of “deliberately violating labor safety codes causing serious consequences”.

Phuc, Chan, and Phuoc were arrested last month while the two others are under house arrest.

The police also asked Vietnam Petrolimex to take disciplinary action against 12 other officials.

Five other workers were also critically injured last March when the explosion in a 15-meter high, 12,500-liter tank under construction tore off its 5mm steel lid and blew up the welders working on it.

The blast is suspected to have been caused by gasoline getting mixed with water pumped into the tank to test for leakage, and being set off by the welding torches.

Source: Thanh Nien - Translated by Trong Nhien