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  • CEO arrested following fatal battery fire in South Korea

    30 August 2024

    The CEO of South Korean lithium battery manufacturer Aricell has been arrested in relation to the 24 June fire that killed 23 people at the company’s factory in Hwaseong. Park Soon-kwan was arrested after a court approved a warrant following allegations of industrial safety violations....

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  • Global ink manufacturer fined £85,000 after flash fire

    29 July 2024

    Global ink and coatings manufacturer Wikoff Color Corp. has been fined $110,000 (£85,000) after a US Department of Labor investigation found it could have prevented an employee from suffering burn injuries following a flash fire at its plant in Lisbon, Wisconsin....

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  • Explosives manufacturer fined £670,000 after worker dies

    04 July 2024

    A manufacturer of military explosives has been fined £670,000 after an employee was killed and another seriously injured in an explosion at a factory near Salisbury, UK. The two men were working on the production of MTV – an explosive substance used in military flares – at the premises of Chemring Countermeasures on 10 August 2018. They were cleaning a vessel used in the production and were removing residual explosive material in preparation for the next day’s shift....

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  • Union calls off Port Talbot strike after Tata Steel threatens to close steelworks early

    02 July 2024

    Trade union Unite has suspended strike action it had planned for 8 July at Tata Steel’s Port Talbot plant after the steel giant threatened to cease operations at the facility. The company had been planning to shut just one blast furnace by the end of June with the second closing by September as part of its plans to invest £1.25 billion in Electric Arc Furnace technology which would see around 2,800 job losses....

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  • Tata Steel could cease Port Talbot operations as early as next week due to strike

    28 June 2024

    Tata Steel UK has said that operations at its Port Talbot plant could potentially cease by as early as 7 July due to a planned strike by trade union Unite. The company had been planning to shut just one blast furnace by the end of June with the second closing by September as part of its plans to invest £1.25 billion in Electric Arc Furnace technology which would see around 2,800 job losses....

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Lithium battery factory blaze kills 22 workers 24 June 2024

A fire caused by exploding lithium batteries at a factory in South Korea killed 22 workers and injured eight others on 24 June. The incident happened at a facility owned by battery manufacturer Aricell in the city of Hwaseong, around 28 miles (45km) southwest of the capital Seoul....

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Explosion at Polish weapons factory kills one 17 June 2024

A blast at a munitions factory in southeastern Poland killed one worker and injured several others on 10 June. The incident happened at the Mesko arms factory in the city of Skarzysko-Kamienna and caused a significant fire to break out....

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Leading tool, equipment manufacturer cited after maintenance electrician suffers severe burns 04 June 2024

One of the world's largest tool and equipment manufacturers, Stanley Black + Decker, could have prevented a 29-year-old maintenance electrician from suffering severe burns during an electrical arc blast at a company facility in Willard, Ohio if required safety standards were followed, a US Department of Labor investigation has found....

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Recycling company fined after workers exposed to wood dust 04 June 2024

Workers at a wood waste recycling centre were put in danger due to excessive exposure to the dust their work created, a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution has found. Esken Renewables Limited, a waste and recycling company that specialises in generating biofuel from renewable waste, ran a wood waste recycling centre in Middlesborough that processed mixed wood waste, hardwood and softwood into biofuel....

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Waste management company fined after worker suffers burns to body and face 14 May 2024

The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a waste management company following an incident on 14 July 2021 in which a worker suffered burns to his face and body after the crowbar he was using came into contact with a live electrical conductor....

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