{"id":609206,"date":"2025-12-03T08:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609206\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:59:19","slug":"avonmouths-fatal-explosion-was-an-easily-avoidable-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/609206\/","title":{"rendered":"Avonmouth’s fatal explosion was an ‘easily avoidable’ disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr Osborn intends to provide a report to the HSE which outlines his concerns – including over the use of safety features like explosion relief panels.<\/p>\n

He believes the silo that exploded could have been fitted with additional safety measures.<\/p>\n

After studying aerial shots from Google, Mr Osborn said two new silos were installed at the Avonmouth site between 2007 and 2009.<\/p>\n

These were a different type and served a different function from the silo that exploded in 2020, which had been installed several years earlier.<\/p>\n

But an industry magazine claimed in 2013, external<\/a> the new silos were fitted with a key safety measure – explosion relief panels.<\/p>\n

These are deliberately designed to come loose in the event of a build-up of pressure, preventing the kind of catastrophic explosion that occurred in 2020.<\/p>\n

However, he said he has seen no evidence that the silo that exploded was fitted with these panels.<\/p>\n

Mr Osborn said that if new silos were fitted with them, existing silos should have also been retrofitted.<\/p>\n

“It comes back at the end of the day to sitting down and thinking through the risks involved, identifying the hazards,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I think if that had been done properly, the precautions would have been put in place.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Osborn intends to provide a report to the HSE which outlines his concerns – including over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-609206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}