Altrans fined for defective valve
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• A leaking
tanker cost Glou cester-based Al trans Liquids £1,175 in fines and costs. Appearing before Dewsbury Magistrates the company pleaded guilty to failing to maintain the tanker so as to prevent its contents escaping. Prosecuting for the Health & Safety Executive, Keith King said that the tanker had been on its way from BP in South Wales to the Viking Polymers factory at Batley, Yorks, when it was involved in an accident. An examination revealed defective tyres and brakes, and a leak of the vinyl acetate from a tail pipe.
The second valve on the exit line was found to be defective.
King pointed out that the company had been fined £450 in March for the tyre and brake offences, which were much less serious.
If the tanker had exploded the centre of Dewsbury would have been devastated.