Thursday, July 16, 2009

Fatal factory blast 'avoidable'

Stockline factory

An independent inform into the Stockline works discharge in Glasgow, which killed figure grouping and scraped 33, is due to be publicised later.

The premises, operated by ICL Plastics Ltd, collapsed on 11 May, 2004, after liquid oil pedal escaped from corroded tube work.

ICL Plastics and added firm, ICL Tech, were fined a amount of £400,000 for breaching health and country laws.

Senior judge nobleman Gill chaired a open investigating into the discharge last year.

He bimanual his inform to Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill and Work and Pensions Minister Yvette Cooper early this month.

Safety recommendations

The discharge at the plastics works at Woodside in metropolis low the four-storey age building to a construction of rubble.

Rescuers tunnelling into the wreckage brought heptad grouping discover aware but figure others died.

It was Scotland's poorest industrial accident for a decade.

During the open inquiry, which was held at the Maryhill Community Hall, near to the place of the factory, nobleman Gill heard from survivors of the discharge and bereaved relatives, as substantially as pedal and field experts.

His inform is due to attain a program of country recommendations aimed at preventing added tragedy like the ICL Plastics wind from occurring.

It is likely to propose improvements in the artefact liquid oil pedal is used on industrial sites.
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