£5 million fine over deaths


Oil refinery owner Valero Energy UK has been handed the joint third highest fine — £5 million with £1 million in costs— after it pleaded guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 over the deaths of four workers.


Dennis Riley, Robert Broome, Andrew Jenkins and Julie Jones died when a storage tank in the Amine Recovery Unit (ARU) at the oil refinery in Pembrokeshire exploded eight years ago.


Another worker, Andrew Phillips, sustained major injuries in the incident.

https://press.hse.gov.uk/2019/06/06/valero-energy-uk-fined-5-million-after-four-people-died-in-an-oil-explosion