Diamond Wheels (Dundee) Limited, of Nethergate, Dundee, was fined £50,000 after a worker died after inhaling fumes while cleaning a chemical stripping paint tank at a motor vehicle repair company.
The circumstances were:
- Steven Conway, 33, from Dundee, was employed by Diamond Wheels (Dundee) Limited to undertake general duties
- These duties included collections and deliveries, removing and replacing tyres, and moving alloy wheels into, and out of, the chemical stripping tank.
- Mr Conway was provided with no formal training in respect of the use of the chemical stripping tank and the chemical stripping agent used by the company.
- Instead he was given ‘on the job’ training.
- On 18 August 2011, he was attempting to remove stripping debris from within the chemical stripping tank.
- He was overcome by dichloromethane vapour while and died as a result of his exposure to those vapours.
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