Company fined £2m after worker died from burns

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George Laird suffered severe burns to 90% of his body after being covered in lava-like debris at a factory in Stirlingshire.

A court heard the decision to use a firehose to shoot 7,500 litres of cold water into the chamber had been "catastrophic."

He said a lack of safety protocols meant employees had to take it upon themselves to devise methods of clearing hot ash from the base of a combustion chamber.Sheriff Wood said the decision to use a fire hose to shoot 7,500 litres of cold water into a pile of hot ash in the chamber had been "catastrophic" and directly led to Mr Laird's death.

The jury found that the company had failed to ensure the health and safety of its workers for more than a year prior to the fatal explosion on 13 July 2006.

 

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