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BBC News Published image captionDerek William Barks, Derek Moore, Jason Shingler and Dorothy Bailey died in the 2015 explosion Manslaughter charges have been dropped against the owner of a wood mill where four people died in a blast. George Boden was a director of Wood Treatment Ltd in 2015 when the explosion happened at Wood Flour Mills in Bosley, Cheshire. Corporate manslaughter charges against the firm have also been dropped. At a special Nightingale Court at Chester Town Hall, Mr Boden pleaded guilty to a health and safety offence. The exact cause of the fatal blast is not known, but it was thought to have involved an explosion of wood dust, the trial heard. ....
BBC News Published image captionDerek William Barks, Derek Moore, Jason Shingler and Dorothy Bailey died in the 2015 explosion A worker at a wood mill where four people died in a blast said he had been sacked after raising safety concerns. Matthew Dutton told a trial at Chester Town Hall he had been told to go home after refusing to clean part of the mill workers believed was dangerous. He said machinery at Wood Flour Mills in Bosley, Cheshire, was never turned off, the dust in the area was up to his knees and the air was unbreathable . A firm and its director are on trial over the deaths in July 2015. ....
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