A worker who underlays collapses during a building demolition work.

On the 26th in Yokohama, there was an accident in which a man who was dismantling a miscellaneous building was killed by laying under a wall made of concrete blocks, and the police are investigating whether there was a problem with the work procedure .

After 3 pm on the 26th, the police reported that a man of a 60-year-old worker who was dismantling an 8-story house building in Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama-shi was under the wall where he fell down. did.

The man was taken to the hospital by ambulance, but was hit hard and died about four hours after the accident.

According to the police, at the time of the accident, the men were working with other workers in pairs to dismantle the wall on the first floor of the building.

However, a concrete wall with a thickness of about 10 centimeters, a wall of about 1.7 meters in height and 2.9 meters in width, suddenly fell to the man's side and became an underlay.

The other male worker was not injured, but originally the wall was supposed to fall to the other side, so the police suspected that the work was negligently fatal, so there was a problem with the work procedure We are investigating whether there was.