Second double fatality costs firm £733,000

摘要

A metal-treatment company must pay a total of £733,000 in fines and costs, following the death of two workers at its manufacturing plant in Hereford.rnWorcester Crown Court heard on 24 July that a works manager and a maintenance manager died of asphyxiation at a plant operated by Bodycote HIP Ltd, of Macclesfield, on 14 June 2004. Stuart Jordan, 50, and Richard Clarkson, 29, were found unconscious on stairs leading to a concrete-lined pit after argon gas had leaked from a large pressure vessel.rnThe pit's oxygen alarm system had been silenced after a number of false alarms at the site. The ventilation system was also not in operation because it had lost power during a power cut, which occurred a month before the incident, and it had not been switched back on.