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Kynoch's I M I 1950s Onwards

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Birmingham Daily Post 29 June 1974 reported 6 killed and 24 workers seriously injured in the 1973 explosion. IMI were fined £10 the maximum allowed under the Explosives Act 1875 with £150 costs. The cause was a worker fitting a guard using an electric drill on a cartridge filling machine while it was still in use. Loose explosives and explosive mixtures had not been cleared from the room. [British Newspaper Archive]
 
Stokkie said:
Birmingham Daily Post 29 June 1974 reported 6 killed and 24 workers seriously injured in the 1973 explosion. IMI were fined £10 the maximum allowed under the Explosives Act 1875 with £150 costs. The cause was a worker fitting a guard using an electric drill on a cartridge filling machine while it was still in use. Loose explosives and explosive mixtures had not been cleared from the room. [British Newspaper Archive]
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Recall hearing the explosion from Kingstanding came on BRMB not long after
 
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