On the 10th, in an amusement park in Kato City, Hyogo Prefecture, a part of the wood found at the site was corroded in an accident in which the floor of a three-dimensional maze fell out and six people were seriously injured. understood.
Police are investigating the cause of the accident on suspicion of negligent injury due to the fact that both ends of the timber supporting the floor were broken.
On the afternoon of the 10th at "Tojo Lake Toy Kingdom" in Kato City, Hyogo Prefecture, the floor of the 3rd floor of the 5-story three-dimensional maze facility "Karakuri Labyrinth Castle" fell out and fell to the 2nd floor about 2 meters below. A person was seriously injured.
According to police investigation, both ends of the wood, which is about 1 meter long and supports the passage on the 3rd floor like a beam, were broken, and the floor had fallen off over a width of 1 meter and a length of 2.3 meters.
According to investigators, subsequent investigations revealed that some of the wood found at the site was corroded.
The police are investigating the cause of the accident in detail on the suspicion of negligent injury in business, such as hearing from the amusement park side whether there was a problem with the safety management system.
Similar accidents at another amusement park in the past
The three-dimensional maze has also been installed in other amusement parks in the same group, and the same accident that caused the floor to fall out had occurred before.
The accident occurred at "Karuizawa Toy Kingdom" in Gunma Prefecture, where a part of the floor came off in 2014 and two people were slightly injured.
All three-dimensional mazes were installed by manufacturers in Chiba prefecture.
According to this manufacturer, the three-dimensional maze of "Tojoko Toy Kingdom" was installed in 2013, and after the accident in Gunma prefecture, inspections were strengthened.
Following this accident, the manufacturer dispatched employees to the site to investigate the cause.