Roof collapse at Almaz-Antey Yekaterinburg plant not to hinder production
YEKATERINBURG. Nov 10 (Interfax) - The roof collapse in workshops of the Yekaterinburg-based Kalinin Machine Building Plant of Almaz-Antey Concern on Wednesday will not have serious implications for the plant's output, Plant Deputy General Director for General Issues Alexander Kosintsev told Interfax.
"Speaking of the fulfillment of this year's governmental orders, this unit has accomplished every assignment. They [the workshops] were already working for next year. We are able to regroup. Logistics makes it possible to place some of the production processes and orders with other [plant] units. Actually, this should have no effect on the production process," Kosintsev said, adding that the workshops were engaged in stockpile production.
Specialists will decide whether or not the tools buried under the debris are serviceable, he said. "It is too early to say if we can do any works here [in the workshop] or can dismantle equipment. We will be able to definitively answer this question after the examination is done and all the debris is cleaned up," Kosintsev said.
The roof collapsed in a building of the Kalinin Machine Building Plant at 1:25 a.m. local time on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring 14. The search-and-rescue operation ended at 4 p.m. Moscow time on Wednesday. The plant administration will draw up a reconstruction plan on Thursday.
A criminal case was opened on the counts of 'a breach of safety regulations causing death of two people or more by negligence'.
The Kalinin Machine Building Plant is a military enterprise, which also produces compact loaders, electric and diesel loaders, electric carts and automatic labelers. Plant products include the Buk-M2E intermediate-range anti-aircraft missile system's transporter-erector-launcher and the launcher of the Antei-2500 air defense system.
