Danbol Pty Ltd, the owner of the warehouse where a major chemical fire erupted in West Footscray in 2018, is suing Maribyrnong City Council and gas company BOC over negligence. The lawsuit alleges that council officers were aware of gas cylinders at the site weeks before the fire but failed to notify authorities, while BOC should have known its products were being stored unsafely.
Maribyrnong City Council and gas giant BOC are being sued over a West Footscray chemical blaze that was the worst industrial fire in Melbourne in more than two decades.
Danbol, as the landlord of the property in Somerville Road, West Footscray, claims in its lawsuit that the local council and the alleged source of the cylinders, BOC, were negligent by failing to stop the stockpiling that contributed to the fire’s outbreak. “At all relevant times the council knew that such gas cylinders were potentially hazardous and/or flammable and knew or ought to have known that storing the gas cylinders was itself hazardous, and further that even if empty could represent a potential fire hazard,” the lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court says.
At a separate site owned by White near the town of Kaniva, Environment Protection Authority clean-up crews have allegedlyThe lawsuit from Danbol also names BOC Ltd as a party, claiming the company should have been aware that its product was being stored at an allegedly illegal site and potentially unsafely.“BOC remains committed to complying with all applicable laws wherever we operate,” a spokesperson said.
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