Blog posts : "explosion"
Safety tips when working with chemicals
Maintaining a safe and productive working environment is often challenging whatever the circumstances. When chemicals are involved, that challenge can be significantly increased. Without proper handling, many of the substances on which we rely can be dangerous.
Chemical firm fined following explosion at Widnes plant
A chemical firm has been fined after a hydrogen explosion blew a vessel lid through a factory roof, leaving a worker with minor injuries.
Catalloy Ltd. was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the incident at its plant on Moss Bank Road in Widnes on 25 November 2011. The …
Gas fitter to carry out unpaid community work after explosion injures pensioner
A gas fitter has received a suspended prison sentence and curfew, and been ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid community work, after a pensioner suffered severe burns in a gas explosion at his home in Manchester.
Peter Smith, 66, was in a coma for three months following the blast, which happ…
Chemical firm fined for Burscough explosion
A chemical firm has been ordered to pay £150,000 in fines and costs over a major explosion at a waste management site in Lancashire that caused three workers to sustain serious burns.
Personnel Hygiene Services (PHS) Ltd. was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the blas…
Gas fitter sentenced over Irlam explosion
A gas fitter has been sentenced following a major explosion in Irlam which injured ten adults and five children, and left a 73-year-old woman with severe burns.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Paul Kay after carrying out a large-scale investigation into the explosion on Merlin Ro…
Former pie maker told to pay £375,000 over worker's death
A West Yorkshire firm was today fined £250,000 for safety offences after a gas explosion in an industrial bakery oven ripped through its factory - killing a father of two and badly injuring another worker.
Andrew Jones Pies, of Huddersfield, which is now in administration, was also told by a jud…
UK Power Networks fined over worker death
UK Power Networks (Operations) Limited, which supplies power to the East of England, London and the South East, has been ordered to pay £420,000 in fines and costs after an employee died while working at one of its Essex sites.
Electrical engineer John Higgins, 59, from Colchester, was killed at a…
Property developer sentenced over Manchester gas explosion
A property development firm has been fined £100,000 following a major gas explosion that destroyed dozens of homes in South Manchester.
PJ Livesey Group Ltd. was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following the blast at the Didsbury Gate development on 8 December 2009.
On 29 Nove…
Defence company sentenced over explosion death
Wallop Defence Systems Ltd. (WDS) has been ordered to pay £376,000 in fines and costs for safety failings that caused a fatal explosion at its Hampshire factory.
Anthony Sheridan, 37, from Over Wallop, was killed from injuries sustained in the blast at WDS, in Middle Wallop near Stockbridge, in Ju…
Redhill company fined £167,000 over worker's death
A Redhill-based construction company has been ordered to pay £210,000 in fines and costs after an employee died following an explosion on a construction site in central London. The explosion occurred following damage to an 11,000 volt live cable within an excavation.
Ioan Boboc, 22, a constr…
Dairy firm sentenced over explosion at Allerdale factory
A national dairy firm has been sentenced following a major explosion at its cheese factory in Cumbria.
The boiler house at Aspatria Creamery, on Station Road in Aspatria, was partially destroyed in the blast on 29 July 2010, which threw debris more than 100 metres across the site.
No one was i…
Paisley joiner ordered to do community service after unsafe gas installation caused explosion
A self-employed joiner has been sentenced to 300 hours of community
service after a gas cooker he illegally installed exploded, severely
injuring two householders and causing more than £580,000 worth of damage
to
four properties.
Alex Irvine was hired by John and Emily Reid to cut out a kitc…
Widnes firm fined over employee's fall injuries
A Cheshire worker could have been killed when he fell from the top of a chemical storage tank, a court has heard.
The 44-year-old from Bala, North Wales, had been carrying out maintenance work on the tank at a plant in Widnes when the chemical vapour inside set alight, causing an explosion. The wo…
Fuel injection specialists fined after worker injured
A firm specialising in diesel fuel injection has been fined after a worker was set on fire at its Derbyshire premises.
The 23-year-old apprentice mechanic had been with Swadlincote Diesel Fuel Injection Services Ltd. for 18 months. On 16 March 2009, he and another employee were burning rubbish in …
St. Helens Managing Director sentenced over gas explosion
The Managing Director of a St Helens gas supply firm has appeared in court after he and an employee suffered multiple burns in an explosion.
John Webster was prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after he and another worker received burns to their faces, hands and legs at North West Ga…
New Year's Eve explosion leaves two security guards in hospital
Two security guards suffered serious facial burns after an explosion at the Welbeck Colliery site at Meden Vale on 31 December.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is investigating the incident along with police and the fire service as the source of the explosion at an electrical sub station at th…
Factory explosion is China kills three workers
Three people were killed and four others injured in a workshop explosion in Zhejiang Province last night.
Initial reports are that a reaction kettle exploded and triggered a fire in a chemical factory.
All seven workers trapped following the explosion were rescued, but two died at the scene, and ano…
iPad 2 supplier factory explosion injures 61 workers
An explosion at Shanghai's Riteng Computer Accessory Company factory has left 61 workers injured, 23 of whom have been hospitalised with burns.
The accident occurred on Saturday afternoon, with the factory in the middle of a trial production run of aluminium back panels for Apple's iPad 2 tablet.
Scunthorpe firm in court after worker scarred for life
A construction company has been prosecuted for safety failings after a young worker was left permanently scarred when he struck an underground cable during digging work.
Richard Baisley, 26, of Scunthorpe, received severe burns to his hands, arms, face and chest when he drilled through concrete a…