Mini-tornado halts production at JCB
Posted on 07 Dec 2016 and read 2781 times
Production was halted at the Staffordshire headquarters of excavator manufacturer JCB after a mini-tornado blew down a wall at the Rocester plant last month.
The company said that “hurricane-force winds tore into the side of the factory” where its back-hoe loaders are produced. Production was suspended for 30min while safety checks were carried out.
Assembly manager Richard Williams said: “I was about 30 yards away at the time, and I heard an enormous crash. I turned around and saw that the wall and the windows had come out. Luckily, no-one was in the vicinity at the time.”