FAMILIES of the victims of the refinery explosion in 2011 which killed four people will find out soon the sentence which will be handed to the companies involved.
Sentencing for Valero Energy UK Ltd and B&A Contracts Limited has begun today.
Last year, both companies admitted health and safety charges in a packed Haverfordwest courtroom, filled with those lost who lost friends or relatives in the blast.
Dennis Riley, 52, Robert Broome, 48, Andrew Jenkins, 33, and Julie Jones, 54, died in June 2011 when a storage tank exploded.
A fifth worker, Andrew Phillips, was severely injured.
At the time of the blast the refinery was operated by Chevron Limited, but ownership changed in August 2011.
B&A Contracts Ltd admitted that from October 2010 to June 2011, at Pembroke Refinery, the company failed to ensure the health and safety and welfare at work of all employees, and a similar charge of, on the same dates, failing to ensure the health and safety and welfare at work on non-employees contrary to Sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
Valero Energy UK Limited admitted that from February 1999 to June 2011, at Pembroke refinery, the company failed to ensure the health and safety and welfare at work of all employees, and a similar charge of, on the same dates, failing to ensure the health and safety and welfare at work on non-employees contrary to Sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
