On Friday morning in the city of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, at the defense plant named after Ya. Sverdlov in the building for recycling explosion explosion. From the explosion, a wall collapsed, and a fire began. The fire area reached 120 square meters. The fire was assigned the third difficulty number.

Three people died on the spot. Out of the rubble, four victims were recovered, they were hospitalized in a hospital in Dzerzhinsk. Later, another injured with a burn of 80% of the body surface was found. She was sent to the regional burn center. Two victims are in serious condition. The fate of two more workers in the workshop is unknown.

On the site of the fire 193 people worked with the support of 70 units of equipment.

At noon, open burning was eliminated, in the cordoned off case began spillage of structures and dismantling of debris. An hour later the fire was extinguished completely.

SK began a pre-investigation check, which is still complicated by the presence of cordons and pouring structures. Rospotrebnadzor conducted studies of atmospheric air in the nearest residential area, but there was no excess of MPC of harmful substances in the air.

While it is not known what caused the explosion. Workers in the disposal shop overloaded ammunition from old boxes to new ones for subsequent shipment to the landfill and recycling. At this time in the shop were 43 people.

Vryo Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin keeps the situation on personal control. Relatives of the victims and victims will be helped.

Plant named after Ya. Sverdlov - the largest in the industry of ammunition production in Russia. It produces a wide range of explosives from industrial explosives, checkers, detonators, perforating charges for the oil and gas industry, cumulative charges used for crushing oversized materials in the mining industry. More than a third of the production goes to the defense industry.