Steel company Celsa fined £1.8m for plant deaths

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Celsa steelworks fatal blast: Company fined £1.8m

A steel company has been fined £1.8m after an explosion which killed two men.Peter O'Brien, 51, from Llanishen, Cardiff and Mark Sim, 41, of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, both died in November 2015 following the incident.A safety mechanism failed to shut down a heater which got too hot and then exploded, the court heard.

Five other men were also injured in the blast at the plant in Splott, Cardiff in November, 2015. Worker Darren Wood was seriously injured."We will always love and miss Peter very much, but we need to find some closure now."The explosion took place at Celsa manufacturing in Splott, Cardiff, in 2015 And Mr Sim's wife Samantha described her husband's death as"the most traumatic experience I have ever dealt with".

Celsa admitted failing to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of risks under the Health and Safety at Work Act.He added:"The company failed to make suitable and sufficient assessment of risks."Photographs of the scene shown to me are reminiscent of a bomb site."

 

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