In the Luleå district court initiated on Friday the legal aftermaths of the acclaimed kalkugnsolyckan for over five years where a person died and one received burns to life.
– Since it has been quite the attention so torn wounds up time and time again, so therefore, it has been long and protracted for us who have had to wait for over five years. But I still think it is good that you can be held accountable so that it can’t happen again, ” says Peter Löfroth, which is the big brother to Johan, who died in Luleå, sweden.
It was late evening in the autumn of 2011 on stålverkets area in Luleå, sweden, when Peter’s brother Johan, and workers from several subcontractors to clean the inside of the company Nordkalks six-storey lime kiln with water.
A reaction occurred and the air was filled with the caustic lime, and hot steam. Johan dies of burns after seven weeks of care and Gustaf Seppelin got burns for life.
He pulled the it down there in the lungs, the chalice continued to damage the inside of the body so to the end so started all the body to say, ” Peter, the big brother to Johan Löfroth, who was 24 years old.
the Company Nordkalk who don’t want to not comment on the allegations before the trial and a former plant manager there who deny the criminal acts accused of a crime suspected of arbetsmiljöbrott by involuntary manslaughter and causing injury.
Despite a minor accident in the oven earlier on the same day was no sufficient risk assessment of the continuation of the work, argues the prosecutor Stig Andersson.
– It is an event that is important for where it should have tightened up the attention further and put in place a sufficient risk assessment, ” says prosecutor Stig Andersson.
at the same time, figures showed that the average the investigation of suspected arbetsmiljöbrott with a fatal outcome, from the cases reached the prosecutor for a decision to be taken, in essence, that the investigation is closed or that the prosecution will have doubled between 2012 and 2016.
From six months to a year although last year was a reduction by a few months compared with 2015 and 2014.
it took Stig Andersson 4.5 years to bring a prosecution in kalkugnsolyckan he explains that the case has been complicated. Several subcontractors were involved and the police and prosecutors also had to wait for the conclusions of the Authority’s investigation.
– It is not so easy to do things in parallel because you can be dependent on a particular answer before you can move on to the next. Things take time. I’d rather have a good investigation, an investigation I litres, according to prosecutor Stig Andersson.
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