Singapore jails director, fines firm $500,000 over 2021 Tuas blast
What's new: The explosion killed three workers, injured seven and led to a separate six-week jail term for a manager who deleted messages.
A Singapore court jailed the director of Stars Engrg for 18 months and one week and fined the company S$500,000 over a 2021 explosion at a Tuas worksite that killed three workers and injured seven others. District Judge Tan Jen Tse found Chua Xing Da had sole control over how a heated mixer was run and wrongly instructed workers to use it with insufficient oil and poor temperature monitoring. The blast at 32E Tuas Avenue 11 on Feb. 24, 2021, ruptured the machine's oil jacket, releasing pressurized oil that ignited. The three men killed were Shohel Md, Anisuzzaman Md and Subbaiyan Marimuthu. Production manager Lwin Moe Tun also received six weeks in jail for deleting messages tied to the case.