Pressure system explosion costs food manufacturer £4,000

A food manufacturer has been fined for failing to properly maintain a pressure system after a worker lost his leg in an explosion.

On 12 June 2007, a 44-year-old Loughborough man employed at Authentic World Cuisine Limited, which produces a range of sachet Asian meals for supermarkets, sustained multiple injuries when the door of an autoclave (known as a retort, or pressure cooker) exploded under pressure midway through a cooking cycle.

The detached circular steel door struck him and sent... (289 more words)

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