£100,000 fine for poisonous chlorine leak

Rhodia Eco Services Limited has been fined £100,000 following a chlorine leak at the company’s site in Chesterfield in 2003. A joint investigation by the HSE and the Environment Agency showed the highly poisonous release was caused by Rhodia’s deficient procedures and a failure to learn the lessons of an earlier, smaller, leak.

The company admitted one charge brought by the Environment Agency of failing to ensure that suitably experienced, trained and supervised people carried out the ... (387 more words)

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