Stockline campaign seeks facts about blast

Workers and campaigners from the ICL/Stockline factory in Glasgow are seeking a public inquiry into an explosion on the site two years ago.

On 11 May 2004, nine people lost their lives and more than 40 others were seriously injured at the factory, in the worst workplace health and safety disaster in Scotland since the 1998 Piper Alpha oil-rig blaze.

A union-backed support group has now organised a petition calling for an open public inquiry – the only way, it says, that the full facts surrounding the disaster will be revealed and the necessary changes brought about to “prevent the recurrence of such a tragedy”.

The petition is available at www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=2561