Bosley Mill Trial

The trial will begin at Chester Nightingale Court on Wednesday 13 January in relation to the deaths of three men and a woman at a mill in Bosley.

Following a joint investigation by Cheshire Police and Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Wood Treatment Limited, at Dane Mills, Tunstall Road, is facing four charges of corporate manslaughter and one charge under Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act.

Representatives from the company have also been charged.

George Boden, 64, from Stockport, is charged with four counts of manslaughter by gross negligence and one charge under Section 37(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act (in relation to the Section 2 charge against the company).

Phillip Smith, 58, from Macclesfield, is charged under Section 37(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act (in relation to the HSWA Section 2 charge against the company).

Peter Shingler, 56, from Bosley, is charged under Section 37(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act (in relation to the HSWA Section 2 charge against the company).

The charges relate to an explosion at the mill on the morning of 17 July 2015 in which Derek Moore, 62, Dorothy Bailey, 62, Jason Shingler, 38, and Will Barks, 51, sadly died.

The trial is expected to run for a minimum of 12 weeks.