A garage owner has been fined £15,000 after an accident in which a Lincolnshire work experience student was engulfed in flames.

In

January 2008 a schoolboy was undertaking a work placement at the

Sleaford garage, which is owned by Hockmeyer Motors Ltd, when a

fireball ignited his T-shirt causing the plastic print on it to melt

and burn his skin.

The fireball had been caused by brake fluid, which had set alight after being sprayed onto a running engine.

Hockmeyer

Motors Ltd has been fined £15,000 for the incident and ordered to pay

£9,000 in costs at Grantham Magistrates Court after pleading guilty for

breaching a section of the Health and Safety at Work Act.

The boy returned to his studies the day after the accident and is now employed by Hockmeyer motors on a full time basis.

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