Police and fire departments resume searching for male employees who have lost contact with the fire on the 11th, when a fire broke out at a confectionery maker factory in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, killing five people, including four female employees. At the same time, we are investigating the situation at the site in detail.

At midnight on the 11th, at the Arakawa Factory of "Sanko Confectionery" in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture, a fire broke out from the south wing and burned down. (71), Miyoko Ito (68), Keiko Saito (70), and Hachie Chika (73), who live in the neighboring city of Tainai, died, and one was found dead in the burnt remains.



Police are verifying their identities as one of two male employees in their twenties who have not been contacted.



Police and fire departments resumed the search, which had been suspended due to the risk of a secondary disaster, from 10 am on the 13th with 63 people.



Also, four of the five who died were found near the product packaging site on the north side of the building, and one unidentified was found near the rice cracker making site on the south side. I learned anew from the interview with the fire department.



According to the fire department, some employees explained that the fire broke out from the dregs of the confectionery, and the police and the fire department are investigating the situation at the site in detail and trying to identify the source of the fire.

Four women who broke out or died during the cleaning time are in charge of cleaning

According to police and the company, four of the five dead women were in charge of cleaning the factory, and it seems that they were working night shifts on the day of the fire.



According to the company, night shifts are called "late shifts" within the company and are supposed to work from 9:20 pm to 5:30 the next morning.



In the building where the fire broke out, it was planned that the person in charge of the production process would take a break for 50 minutes after production until around 11:30 pm.



Normally, about 6 to 7 cleaners are cleaning the production process during this break.



It was during this break and cleaning time that the fire broke out this time.



According to Sanko Confectionery, rice crackers and hail were made in the building where the fire broke out.

When a fire breaks out, the electricity in the factory goes out.

According to the relatives of Miyoko Ito, who died in a factory fire at Sanko Confectionery, Miyoko was in charge of cleaning the rice cracker production line.



Specifically, after the production of rice crackers was finished, I was working on cleaning the sugar and soy sauce residue left on the line, and on the day of the fire, I was working from around 9 pm.



Her relatives also heard that when a fire broke out through an acquaintance who worked at the factory at the time, the lights went out and the scene went black and the direction was completely unknown.



Miyoko has been working in a factory with her colleagues for many years, and has a good relationship with Chika Hachie, who died in a fire, and Chika was a leader in the workplace.

Husband of a deceased woman "died in a factory where she should be able to work safely"

According to Keiko Saito's husband, Chuichi, who died in a factory fire at Sanko Confectionery, Keiko has been working as a part-time employee cleaning the factory for about 10 years.



Even on the day of the fire, she left home at around 8:30 pm, leaving her saying "I'm going".



Her husband, Chuichi, said of the fire, "something that shouldn't have happened. She died in a factory that should be a safe place to work."



According to Keiko's relatives, Keiko sometimes talked about the factory, saying, "There was another fire," or "the broken or dangerous parts of the factory remain." That is.