Boss ignored multiple fire- safety warnings

摘要

The owner of a pallet manufacturing company ignored HSE advice stop uncontrolled fires being lit at his warehouse, which was located between two gas storage sites.In December 2007, the HSE received a complaint about pallets being set on fire inside Brampton Pallets' premises at the Willowholme Industrial Estate in Carlisle. An HSE inspector visited the site on the 10th of that month and issued a Prohibition Notice to the company's owner, George Ward. This required him to stop uncontrolled fires being lit in open-top drums, to eliminate the risk of embers spreading into either of the bordering yards, which were both liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) storage sites.