UK water firm pleads guilty after four killed in explosion

Three men and a teenage boy died in the devastating explosion.A water company has pleaded guilty to health and safety charges after an explosion at one of its sites killed four workers, including a teenage boy. Luke Wheaton, 16, from Bradley Stoke; Ray White, 57, from Portishead; Brian Vickery, 63, from Clevedon; and Mike James, 64, from Bath, died in the incident at Wessex Water’s treatment site in Avonmouth, Bristol, on December 3 2020.