Celsa Manufacturing UK, a steel company that admitted violations of health and safety due to the death of two workers who died in an explosion at a plant in Cardiff, could be fined £ 1.5 million. Celsa Manufacturing UK filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, the day the trial was due to start in Cardiff's court. Judge Neil Bidder told the court that the automatic shutdown did not work after the hot oil used to lubricate the steel rollers exceeded normal temperatures. Workers did not turn off the system manually, because an alarm that would notify them of the danger also worked incorrectly.
The judge said: “The grease has caught fire and reached its ignition point ... this caused a terrible explosion. The company pleaded guilty to failing to conduct an appropriate risk assessment. If they made the correct estimates, this accident would not have occurred. Two people were tragically killed. "They went to work and never returned, and another person was very seriously injured."
Judge Bidder said that the size of the fine will depend on the category of crime, but it will be from 130,000 to 1.5 million pounds, with the appointment of the hearing scheduled for October 4.
Engineers Peter O'Brien and Mark Sim died when an explosion occurred at the Celsa plant. Another person was seriously injured in an explosion at a factory in the Splott area in November 2015.
Celsa UK employs more than 500 people and annually produces 1.2 million tons of steel from scrap. Its parent company, Celsa Group, is one of the largest steel companies in Europe, based in Spain, Poland, Norway and France.
