Then I would be very surprised that this happen simultaneously on 2 série contactors.
What's melt a contact is heat generated. Amps alone or voltage alone aren't making any energy, you need a contact resistance to held voltage + flowing current to heat up the contact at the melting point. If this happen on 1 of the contactor, it will significantly makes the voltage drop on the other reducing the chances to melt the other one...
Same when opening under load, the arc generated is halved on the 2 contactors when both are suppose to be good enough to extinguish it alone.