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Article: Shell fined [pounds sterling]900,000 for safety breaches that killed two men; Unions criticise size of penalty on [pounds sterling]1m-an-hour oil giant.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- April 28, 2005
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Byline: GRACE MACASKILL
OIL giant Shell was yesterday fined almost [pounds sterling]1million over the deaths of two workers killed as they tried to inspect a leaking pipe on a North Sea rig.
Sean McCue, 22, and 45-year-old Keith Moncrieff died after being exposed to gas escaping from a valve on the Shell Brent Bravo platform, 115 miles off Shetland.
They were sent into one of the rig's legs to inspect a temporary patch on a pipe, but a broken valve led to a large escape of lethal hydrocarbon gases.
The men's colleagues could only watch their deaths on CCTV cameras after the massive leak triggered a shutdown in the area where they were ...