Porvoo’s Meat District fire conditional imprisonment for CEO

Eastern Uusimaa On Monday, the District Court sentenced a six -month prison sentence to the CEO of the Meat District Restaurant for general risk of negligence and construction offense.

The case was about a fire in the Meat District restaurant in Porvoo in August 2022. The fire was caused by a charcoal grill, which was incorrectly installed and used incorrectly.

The court held that its fat channel was built without a building permit, a special plan and a final inspection. Its fire insulation was also inadequate.

Similarly, the exhaust air instrument was inappropriate for its purpose because the structure of the fan did not withstand the heat loads and the fan attachment was inadequate. The top fan had melted the entire fan wheel and engine mounts, which had affected its fall and the breakdown of the fat duct hatch, the court stated.

The punishment came from the negligence of the general risk because the CEO was responsible for the proper implementation of fire safety changes and the use of the charcoal grill. He was also aware of the unauthorized construction, and yet the charcoal grill was in use.

Legal He stated that the fire occurred at night in the middle of the old town of Porvoo, whose building stock consists mainly of old densely built wooden buildings. Hundreds of people live in the area.

The danger of spreading the fire into a area fire was concrete. There was also a hotel and apartments next to the restaurant.

The CEO was charged with a gross act, but the court relieved the judgment, among other things, because he had just ordered the purification of fat channels, which had not had time to do and used universities in the field.

The court dismissed the prosecution for the building protection offense, but it was accepted by the construction offense.

The act was seriously serious because the building in a protected dense wood district had introduced a risky charcoal procedure for fire safety, ignoring.

Also The restaurant’s shift manager was sentenced to 40 daily fines, or about EUR 1,300 for careless handling. He burned wooden wine box pieces on the grill, from which the flame advanced to the fat channel and caused a fire.

The court stated that he should have understood the risk of fire when burning partly a fat channel comparable to the cooker hood and the wooden grill under its hood, its hatch, as in the fireplace.

However, the court notes that he was not familiar with the use of the furnace and did not know about the deficiencies of the fat channel, and from his point of view it was normal to dispose of boxes.

The court and his company reimbursed the court of more than EUR 100,000 in various costs, such as the loss and costs of the sale of the business margins on the destinations of the adjacent premises. Some of them also have to participate in a smaller share of the shift manager.