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HSE Safety Alert Redundant Solid Fuel Back Boilers
This alert follows several incidents in the last five years, three of which resulted in serious injury, and sadly in one case, a fatality.
In the most recent case the redundant solid fuel back boiler had been left in a sealed condition and sometime later, when a coal or wood fire was lit in front of the boiler, the unit heated up sufficiently for the internal pressure to cause the boiler casing to explode.
Please visit
http://www.hse.gov.uk/services/localgovernment/boilers.htm
for more information.
Published: 17 June 2008
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