The area of the collapse at the enterprise in the Lipetsk region was about 5 thousand square meters. m

The area of the collapse recorded in the welding workshop of the Motorinvest enterprise in the Krasninsky district of the Lipetsk region was about 5 thousand square meters. m. On Thursday afternoon, February 19, the press service of the Main Directorate (GU) of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation in the region reported.

"The area of the collapse is about 5,000 square meters," the ministry said in a statement on the MAX messenger.

It is noted that 114 people and 35 pieces of equipment were involved in the work at the scene of the incident. An airmobile group has also been put on standby, the ministry said.

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The governor of the Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, announced the collapse of the roof of one of the workshops of the Motorinvest company in the village of Grebenkino on the same day in the afternoon. After a while it became known that five people were pulled out from under the rubble, and later their number increased to six. The head of the region said that the preliminary cause of the collapse could be the accumulation of snow.

On February 19, the regional department of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia opened a criminal case on the incident under Article 143 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of labor protection requirements"). It was emphasized that investigators and criminologists began to work at the scene of the incident, who began to conduct an inspection.

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