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Accident Has Taken Place At Krychau Cement Plant, People Injured

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Accident Has Taken Place At Krychau Cement Plant, People Injured
PHOTO: RADIO SVABODA

Information about the accident was received from workers.

As workers said, an accident has taken place at Krychau cement plant. During repair and maintenance work a large mass of hot cement mixture caved in from above. Several persons were burnt. The administration of the plant denies the fact of the emergency event, Radio Svaboda informs.

As said by workers, the accident took place on March 16 overnight, when the equipment was cleaned from hot mixture at a height of 60 m.

“The fall of the cement from a metal container has taken place. The temperature of the mass was about 700 degree. Service hatches broke down, and the mass started to shower down, breaking everything, – one of the workers told. – The question remains, why it had been decided to carry out these works at night. It is possibly because this is a rather busy spot at daytime, and such an accident could have been expected still.”

People, who were carrying out maintenance work, were burnt, said the worker of the plant, but they have stayed alive. According to him, the accident had been caused by bad calculations of those responsible for this work.

The interlocutor said that there was no paramedic at the plant in the night, and the ambulance was called in from the capital of the district, which is situated at a distance of about ten kilometres. As said by him, two of his colleagues are in hospital at the moment.

“The damage caused by the accident was eliminated in the daytime in an emergency mode. People had been driven to clear up the mass that had collapsed, so that no signs would be left. We managed to make pictures of the fire-damaged plastic doors. By this damage one can speak about the temperature of the mixture that had collapsed to the ground. The doors have been already replaced. It is an entrance to the central control desk. The plant administration asked workers not to disclose what had happened at the enterprise,” – a worker of the cement plant, who asked not to be named, said.

The plant management denies the fact of the accident. “Such things didn’t happen,” – said a representative of the administration.

No information is available from the hospital about whether people from the cement plant had been admitted. It could be disclosed to relatives only.

According to unofficial information, 5 persons were injured, two stay in hospital.

The new cement plant at the railway station Kamenka near Krychau was launched on August 16, 2013. It was constructed on the Chinese money.

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