Chemical plant explosion in Yorkshire
- Title
- Chemical plant explosion in Yorkshire
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 22 Sep 1992
- Year of production
- 1992
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- Duration
- 00:02:07
- Description
- Report on an explosion at the Hickson and Welch chemical factory at Castleford, Yorkshire which has killed two people and injured more than a dozen. With comment from West Yorkshire’s Chief Fire Officer Jim Manuel(?); Len Land, an eyewitness; Dr David Fyffe(?), Managing director at the factory; local resident Carol Hemingway. Matt Foster reports from Leeds. Taken from Radio Aire.
- Contributors
- Radio Aire; Matt Foster; Jim Manuel(?); Len Land; Carol Hemingway; David Fyffe(?)
- Keywords
- Deaths; Fires; Yorkshire; Occupational health and safety; Explosions; Chemical works; Industrial plants; Accidental death; Hickson and Welch; Castleford
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