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- Title
Blast furnace no. 5 incident, Corus, Port Talbot, 08 November 2001.
- Authors
Hodges, J.; Curry, S.
- Abstract
This paper describes the on-site and subsequent off-site laboratory investigation of the fatal explosion that occurred at blast furnace No. 5 at Corus UK Ltd. The joint investigation, initially led by South Wales Police (SWP), involved the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and the Health & Safety Laboratory (HSL), which is the in-house agency of HSE. The explosion was classed as a major incident by HSE. Some of the issues surrounding the various aspects of this investigation are described to give an impression of its scale. It traces the on-site evidence gathering process, through the laboratory testing and investigations, to the final conclusions regarding the incident mechanism. At the end of the investigation HSE had a sufficient understanding of the failure mechanisms to allow a successful prosecution in the Crown Court.
- Subjects
PORT Talbot (Wales); WALES; BLAST furnaces; EXPLOSIONS; CORUS UK Ltd.; ACCIDENT investigation
- Publication
Loss Prevention Bulletin, 2011, Issue 219, p3
- ISSN
0260-9576
- Publication type
Article