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Liquid Load was Insecure
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AFTER police officers had discovered that it was dangerous to inhale the vapours of a liquid, which was dripping from a lorry in Huddersfield; pedestrians were prevented from using the road and the officers were sent to bed until a doctor declared them to be fit for duty.
Huddersfield magistrates were told this last Friday, when R ipponden and District Motors, Ltd., Ripponden, and one of their drivers pleaded not guilty to using a lorry with an insecure load of drums.
The prosecution said that two police officers saw the lorry stationary on the crown of the road. The driver was using a piece of wood to sweep into the road colourless liquid which was coming from one of eight casks. After smelling the liquid to try to identify it, the policemen's eyes became sore and inflamed and sore throats developed. According to a delivery note, the liquid was dimethyl sulphate.
A chemist witness said that if a large quantity of the liquid were spilled over a person and he did not wash immediately and remove his clothing, it could be fatal.
Mr. John Hirst, company secretary, had said that the drums had been delivered that day by a Dagenham firm and were transferred to a lorry to be taken to a Huddersfield factory. One of the wedges must have shaken loose on the way, allowing the drums to roll about, and a defective bung must have come out. In his opinion, the Dagenham firm was responsible for turning out a drum in that condition.
Mr, P. Kenny, for the defendants, submitted they were not liable because the bung became defective. The company were fined £5 and the driver El.