Man died in 'unimaginable pain' from being 'cooked alive'

The 54-year-old was carrying out cleaning work on an industrial oven used by Pyranha Mouldings to manufacture kayaks and canoes when he became trapped.

An investigation was launched at the time by Cheshire Police following the incident at the Runcorn factory.

In 2015, Pyranha Mouldings was found guilty of corporate manslaughter with the blame lying with maintenance work practices.

Following his death, a podcast told how he "pounded on the door" as he was "cooked alive" inside the machine.

Catterall - a senior supervisor at Pyranha - was inspecting the oven which had developed a fault with its guide rail and was turned off.

However, after falling inside, the oven was switched back on and placed into warm-up mode by a colleague.

The colleague remained unaware as Catterall tried to escape and smoke began coming out of the oven.

True crime podcaster and YouTuber Mr Ballen, who hosts "MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories", said: "The walls of the oven would have glowed red-hot.

"And before long the crowbar he was using to try to open the door must have become so hot he couldn't have held it.

"The ground as well would have been red hot, and his shoes would have begun to melt, and then the air temperature inside would have gotten so unbelievably hot...he couldn't have breathed."

The podcaster added that Catterall would have died "screaming in pain and pounding on the door", stripping off his skin before he "collapsed to the ground in unimaginable pain as he cooked alive".

He was pronounced dead at the scene after the oven doors were opened.

Following a trial at Liverpool Crown Court, Pyranha Mouldings was found guilty of corporate manslaughter and of two additional charges under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

The company was fined £200,000, and asked to pay £90,000 in costs alongside company director Peter Mackereth.

Mackereth was sentenced to nine months in prison suspended for two years and fined £25,000.