45 million rounds of .22 ammunition were purchased by the Premier Aluminium Casting Company Limited of Hay Mills, Birmingham, who were licensed to process them to recover their scrap metal.

[1] A condition of the licence was that the factory where the work was undertaken was inspected for the suitability of its premises and safety processes, such as the avoidance of naked flames, and isolating workers from each other in groups of two or three.

[2] Premier Aluminium Casting resold about 160 long tons (160 t) of the ammunition for dismantling at premises owned by Louisa Kate Knowles in Groveland Road, Dudley Port, Tipton.

[16] The victims had worn their own clothing and shoes, and the workshop, which had a concrete floor,[c] was heated by an open stove and a fire.

[2] A Portland stone memorial to the victims, erected by public subscription in 1924 and refurbished in 2010, stands in section O of Tipton Cemetery.

[3] The centenary of the event was marked with an installation by the Birmingham artist Chris Hardy, at Tipton Community Centre, comprising 19 oversize dresses, which had holes from being shot at.