The grieving widow of one of four workers killed in an explosion at a waste water treatment plant says her son narrowly missed the blast.
Brian Vickery, 63, had worked for Wessex Water for 42 years and was nearing retirement when he died in the blast in Avonmouth, near Bristol, on Thursday morning.
Mr Vickery and three others were on top of a chemical tank that one witness said exploded like a "bomb". One of four workers was thrown 150 metres (500 feet) into a lake, it is claimed.
Speaking on her doorstep in Clevedon, Somerset, on Friday, Mr Vickery's devastated wife Jane said their son could have died in the blast but had a day off.
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