The explosion at the plant in Kopeysk: the Russian Federation called it an explosion, but reported 23 dead and missing (photo)
The local authorities have already announced that they will open the Alley of Memory, announced mourning and brought wreaths to the tank, which the plant handed over to the city this year by May 9. And which now stands in Kopeysk as a monument. Focus collected everything that is known. The explosion occurred on the night of October 23 around midnight. Local residents began to write about the explosion on social networks.
"There was a column of smoke in the sky, and the shock wave was so strong that the Goltsia house was shaken twice," users reported. The blast wave blew out windows in some houses. The governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Oleksiy Teksler, announced the arrival of emergency services at the site of the accident at 00:25. Already at 00:48 it became known about four dead and several injured.
Videos allegedly showing drones flying in the vicinity of the Plastics plant began to spread actively on social networks. However, Governor Texler said that the version of the arrival of the UAV was not confirmed and that it was all a fake. Officially, there was an accident and a major fire at the plant in Kopeysk. At 02:00 at night there was another explosion. According to unofficial information, the explosions could have occurred due to violations of safety equipment at the enterprise.
A criminal case was opened under Part 3 of Article 217 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of industrial safety requirements of dangerous production facilities, which led to the death of two or more people due to carelessness). Residents of Kopeysk and Chelyabinsk claim that they cannot get information from the plant's management. That's why local pubs are full of missing persons announcements. "We posted on social media that we are looking for dad. Many people did so.
And what else remains to be done? Nothing is clear. The factory can't say anything, we call there every hour, asking if we know anything about the person. And they tell us: "Wait until Monday. " And how can we wait?" said local resident Rinat, noting that he was looking for his father, who "really wanted to get" a job at the Plastics plant, even though there was "harmful production. " "I have half a house working there. . . I was thrown along with the sofa.
I ran out into the street and stood there until four o'clock in the morning. Those who could get out on their own feet were walking through the passage covered in blood. They were then taken away by private cars," said a resident of the village closest to the plant. Governor Teksler officially declared that the plant worked for the defense industry of the Russian Federation, announcing a day of mourning and noting that "comrades in combat" had died.
"I say to the combatants, because they performed the tasks of a special military operation, did everything for Victory. Let's honor the memory of the fallen with a minute of silence," Teksler addressed to those who came to the memorial. The deceased employees are planned to be buried together at the cemetery in the village of Hirnyk, where a monument and a large stele will be erected later. For now, flowers are brought to the tank.
Meanwhile, the families of the dead began to be brought to Kopeisk for identification. The families of the victims will receive 10 million rubles each. The victims will be given from one to two million rubles, depending on the severity of the injuries. Zavod "Plastmas" JSC is a large defense enterprise, formally it is located in the nearest suburb of Chelyabinsk — Kopeysk. The plant is 86 years old. It is primarily a defense enterprise with a huge state defense order.
According to the enterprise card on the HeadHunter website, the enterprise produces industrial explosives, in particular, using products obtained after the disposal of military products. The enterprise is included to the holding company "Techmash" / JSC "Technodinamika" — as part of the state corporation "Rostec". New products are regularly tested at the plant in Kopeysk, which was accompanied by explosions, to which the local residents, in their own words, are "accustomed".