Two companies fined after contractor is seriously burnt

Two companies have been fined after a welder suffered serious burns in an incident at a food processing factory.

The incident occurred during cleaning and maintenance work on an evaporator plant, which concentrates liquids by boiling off water. Brewchem International Ltd, a company that installs and maintains pipework systems, was contracted by Tate & Lyle UK Ltd (now Syral UK Ltd) to open up the evaporators at the site for high-pressure jet cleaning.

During the process of opening up ... (236 more words)

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