Lets explorer Bosley Village

At 9:11 a.m. on the morning of July 17, 2015, fire bells went off at both the Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service’s Macclesfield and Congleton Fire Stations. Cheshire Fire Responders noted the location- Wood Treatment Ltd. at Bosley Mill in Congleton- as they rushed into their gear, piled into fire trucks, and left the station for the two-alarm blaze at Wood Treatment ltd, with sirens screaming.Wood Treatment Ltd. manufactured a variety of wood fibre, wood flour, and wood powder products, which meant that combustible dust was a frequent byproduct and health and safety offence at the wood treatment facility. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, USDA, Wood flour, also known as wood meal, is a finely powdered wood or sawdust that has a similar texture, size, and appearance to cereal flour. It’s made by pulverizing dried wood, often from scraps, using a hammer mill. The wood is then screened so that the particles are small enough to pass through the screen and into a discharge chute. After pulverization, the wood flour is filtered to remove lumps and ensure a consistent consistency. As fire crews raced to the site, they may have anticipated a major event, but probably not the scene of mass destruction and massive primary dust explosion and secondary explosion that occurred at the wood flour mill. A huge fire engulfed the wood flour mill buildings. A crowd stood in the road, dazed and shell-shocked. There were obvious casualties: some people were receiving medical care while others walked around with visible burn injuries. One Cheshire Fire and Rescue officer described the scene at Wood Treatment ltd, wood flour mill as something “like out of the movies.” A member of the Urban Search and Rescue team was equally shocked. “The scale of the incident…is unprecedented in this country in the last 10 years,” he later said.It took several days before the fires were suppressed enough, for the investigators and rescue teams health and safety, to enter the site of this massive explosion. By that point, the wood flour mill at Wood Treatment ltd was completely destroyed by at least three explosions, from wood dust and and a dust cloud. A primary dust explosion occurred within the process, stirring up previously settled dust within the mill, leading to a large secondary dust explosion. More than 800 tons of rubble were moved and police divers were deployed to underground culverts in an attempt to find missing people alive. Firefighters didn’t leave the wood dust explosion site for over a month. After an extensive investigation by Cheshire Constabulary and the national Health and Safety Executive, Wood Treatment Ltd. was charged with corporate manslaughter in November 2019. In addition, company director George Boden was charged with four counts of gross negligence manslaughter. Two mill managers, Philip Smith and Peter Shingler, pleaded not guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety At Work Act. When the trial commenced in December 2019, the court heard that before the blast, one worker had branded the mill “a ticking time bomb,” but when staff raised safety concerns they were told, “We’re not making any profits, we need to make money.” The prosecutor, Tony Badenoch, QC, highlighted a report made in April 2015, following a visit to the site by a risk analyst for insurance purposes. It called for a rolling programme of cleaning to be implemented by July 1 to remove a build-up of wood dust, which, Mr. Badenoch said, could be a “significant dust explosion hazard.”The dangerous conditions and the health and safety offence at the mill, were observed by employees and condemned by safety professionals, but nothing was done, even after at least one dust collector explosion occurred. Whether it was due to ignorance on the part of management, or lack of money, or both, four people went to work on the morning of July 17, 2015, fully expecting to go home to loved ones at the end of the day. They didn’t. Until the dangers of combustible dust are fully realized, more people are going to clock in, unaware that they’ll be working their final shift, with a health and safety offence at their facility. Any mistakes in health and safety offences need to be identified and addressed before they become tragedies. #abandoned #abandonedplaces #abandonedbuilding #abandonedhouse #explore #exploreing #explorer #urbanadventure #urbanactivity #urban #urbex #urbexexplore #urbexuk #usa #canada #cheshire #uk #fypシ゚viral #fypage #fypシ #fyp TikTok - @jksabandonedexplorers Facebook - Jks Explorers Instagram - jks_abandoned_explorers