THE Castle Peak power station blast which killed two workers last year could allegedly have been avoided if crucial testing procedures had been carried out with more care.
This claim is contained in a Fire Services Department (FSD) report produced at the inquest into the deaths earlier this year.
Attorney-General Jeremy Mathews has ordered a new inquest be held after the Sunday Morning Post revealed the jury may not have been given all the evidence before deciding the deaths of Yip Ka-pui, 40, and Wong Kwong-yu, 38, were accidental.
In its conclusions, the FSD claimed China Light and Power (CLP) should have been more careful about the way it conducted tests on the purity of the gas in the hydrogen plant.
Because of the testing method used, an inaccurate result was given. The report said: ''The sampling process and analysis did not reflect the true composition of the gas content in HPVs and other sampling points.
''If a true result had been available, this incident could well have been avoided.'' Under a section headed ''Observations of the Hydrogen Sample Taking and the Laboratory Tests by CLP'', it said: ''Discrepancy with the theoretical composition was found in CLP chemist's analytical results.