Anzegem In Anzegem are dead and three are seriously injured cases in an explosion in windows and deurenbedrijf Pouleyn. The employees of the Ruimdienst Cannie from Oostrozebeke were severely burned when a silo wanted to unload that yesterday a fire raged.
The fire brigade repte themselves yesterday to the company Pouleyn after fire had originated in one of the two silos in which wood waste is collected. The spuitgasten were to end in the back, but we got the situation quickly under control. Also the aftercare was apparently as it should be.
The board of directors of the company decided today to the silo to unload by a specialized company. They did an appeal on Ruimdienst Cannie from Oostrozebeke.
Violent flash
Four employees of that company started this morning to finish the job. But when she was between the two silos, a hatch opened, it went all wrong. In the silo, there was still a lot of heat. The supply of oxygen caused a violent flame that reaches far above the silos came out.
The four was thrown and injured. One of them, a man of 24 years, died this morning of his injuries. Two other victims were in critical condition transferred to the burns unit of the university hospitals Leuven.
“Our thoughts go now to the next of kin, for that people is a disaster,” says mayor De Vogelaere. “The material damage is an afterthought.”
Communication between companies
From the initial findings shows that at the opening of the door of the still smoldering houtmassa in the silo shifted. By the contact with the outside air, it came to an explosion in the silo with a flame as a result.
The arbeidsauditoraat has an expert been appointed accident at work, will investigate. There will among other things be checked whether sufficient information was exchanged between the two companies.
