Firm fined £10,000 over gas cloud leak
A CHEMICAL firm was fined £10,000 after an orange gas cloud leaked from its premises on South Tyneside.
A County Durham engineering firm has been fined £100,000, and ordered to pay £44,000 in costs, after a worker was crushed to death while clearing a jam on a production line, after pleading guilty to breaching Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.