Osaka Northeast Earthquake Blocks collapsing in the City Board of Education
In an accident where the elementary school block was destroyed by the earthquake in northern Osaka in June last year and a 4th grade child died, the police sent out a document inspection of the city school board's equipment staff on the suspicion of negligence and death. Did.
Last June, in the earthquake in northern Osaka Prefecture, where a seismic intensity of less than 6 was observed, the block wall of Kotobuki Elementary School in Takatsuki City collapsed, and a 4th grade girl who was going to school lay underlay and died.
According to the police, 42 years have passed since the installation of the block, and in 2015, three years before the accident, the risk of collapse was pointed out by an external disaster prevention advisor.
For this reason, the principal at that time requested an inspection from the Academic Affairs Division of the Board of Education, but the following year, a non-professional staff judged that there was no danger by visual inspection, etc., and did not confirm with the experts .
In addition, after that, the supplier who performed the inspection also reported that there was no abnormality despite the rust of the internal rebar.
According to the city's survey, the problem block fence had short reinforcing bars connecting the foundations on the ground and was not strong enough.
The police suspected that a series of responses led to an accident, and that four people, including the head of the academic affairs section of the city's school board (62), two staff members, and the person in charge of the inspection contractor, were allegedly negligently fatal. I sent the documents.
Regarding the collapse of the block wall in the earthquake, an accident occurred in which two people were killed or injured in the Kumamoto earthquake three years ago, and the owner was sent a document, but then it was not prosecuted. Prosecutors are expected to judge carefully.