Detained the technical director of the company "Piro-Ross" in the warehouse of which in Sergiev Posad there was an explosion

Yesterday's explosion at the pyrotechnics warehouse of the Piro-Ross company in Sergiev Posad, near Moscow, caused the arrest of the company's technical director.

According to a message posted on the telegram channel of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region, searches have already been carried out at the offices of the Piro-Ross company, from where documents important for the investigation were seized. The interrogations of the employees of the company were carried out. As a result of these actions, it was decided to detain the technical director of Piro-Ross.

Relevant services continue to work at the scene. To determine the exact causes of what happened, dozens of examinations were appointed, more than thirty people were interviewed.

According to the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region, at the moment more than 60 people were injured in the explosion, one woman died, and nine more people are missing.

On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Article 217. Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "on violation of industrial safety requirements for hazardous production facilities".

Piro-Ross was founded in 1994. Its main line of business is the development and production of starting electromechanical equipment, pyrotechnics and garments.

Comments

[Rumata]

On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Article 217. Russian Criminal Code "On Violation of Industrial Safety Requirements for Hazardous Production Facilities".

It cannot be that there were no violations. This does not happen in life anywhere and never, but did they lead to an explosion? What if it's sabotage?

[Orange Bigg]

Piro-Ross was founded in 1994.

Sabotage is already in the very name of the company. It looks like a curse word.

But honestly, it doesn't look like a diversion.
On the air of Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda, Sergei Pakhomov, State Duma deputy and former head of the Sergiev Posad district, spoke about what happened at the plant.

- The optical-mechanical plant itself was considered a defense plant back in Soviet times - 15 thousand people worked there. But it has nothing to do with explosives. Now part of the space is rented out, but the main territory is still occupied by the optical-mechanical plant itself, - Sergey Pakhomov explained. - Until recently, there were no emergency situations there. Quite neat, modern production of one of the well-known companies in the country. Been there many times myself. One of the exemplary enterprises.

According to Pakhomov, it was previously believed that the warehouse of the Piro-Ross pyrotechnic company was located on the other side of the city.

- Therefore, law enforcement officers are now investigating how explosives of this hazard class ended up on the territory of the industrial zone without an appropriate permit. The company itself, which owned the warehouse, is located elsewhere. But this is also a serious company of the world, I would say, level. It has been in operation for decades and produces fireworks of unique quality. It must be the appropriate license. Whether it was, how the work in the warehouse was arranged, law enforcement officers understand.

The State Duma deputy spoke about the main versions of what happened.

- Now one thing can be said: this is not a sabotage, not a terrorist attack, nothing flew there. To date, events have been restored to the smallest detail. At that moment, there were quite a lot of people on the territory, including those working on the roofs. There was no external influence on this warehouse. Question: what triggered the explosion inside the warehouse? Carelessness during unloading, storage errors? Law enforcement agencies are looking into this now.

[Machito]

At first I read Pirosos in the title.
How was a pyrotechnic company allowed into a military factory?

[dump22]

Because defense workers are the founders of this company.

Information from the company's website http://www.piro-ross.ru

Piro-Ross was founded in 1994 by four defense companies:
FSUE "KHZ" (Krasnozavodsk Moscow Region)
Federal State Unitary Enterprise “FSPC “NIIPKh” (Sergiev Posad Moscow Region)
Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Signal" (Chelyabinsk)
FTsDT "Soyuz" (Dzerzhinsky Moscow Region).

[faiver]

How was a pyrotechnic company allowed into a military factory?

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Piro-Ross was founded in 1994 by four defense companies:
FSUE "KHZ" (Krasnozavodsk Moscow Region)
Federal State Unitary Enterprise “FSPC “NIIPKh” (Sergiev Posad Moscow Region)
Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Signal" (Chelyabinsk)
FTsDT "Soyuz" (Dzerzhinsky Moscow Region).

[Rumata]

But honestly, it doesn't look like a diversion.

OK. It is necessary to check all the versions, try to find the true reason (maybe a low-quality explosive was brought in), and not punish on the basis of formal signs of a violation.
Real case. The night watchman in the kindergarten turned on the electric stove. KZ. Fire. Escaped through the doors. Directors punished for incorrectly installed bars on the windows)))

[Pachvara]

There have already been cases of low-quality products. In 2019, a charge exploded right in a mortar in Minsk. One woman was killed by shrapnel, a dozen people were wounded. Two representatives of the company and one responsible from the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus were given three years of chemo. It seems like the examination established that another number of charges were defective, but they did not have time to put them into action. This is of course different, but the jamb on the face.

[U-58]

It cannot be that there were NO violations. Nowhere and never. I mean, everywhere.

[APASUS]

Its main line of business is the development and production of starting electromechanical equipment, pyrotechnics and garments.

An interesting desk. It's like fireworks specialists and seamstresses sitting side by side in one office (roughly speaking)

[fuel oil]

Specialists of a "broad profile". What did the internal security service do and where did it look? What kind of need did the plant management have to rent premises in the center of such an enterprise? Not on the outskirts, in the distance, but in the center? Let's see where the investigation will lead and where it will detonate another "grain dust".

[Alf]

Quote: black oil

What did the internal security service do and where did it look?

Where the leadership ordered, I looked there.

[Sailor]

And what about the persons who provided rental space at the military-industrial complex plant?

[Sergey Aleksandrovich]

That's what's suspicious. The ignition of pyrotechnics in theory should lead to a long "fireworks", at most to multiple small explosions. And then there was a one-time explosion of high power. Here to find out and find out.

[voyaka uh]

They brought a truck full of gunpowder or TNT and blew it up.

[Kostadinov]

90% is a classic sabotage.
Who allowed such an amount of explosive to be stored in such proximity to a defense enterprise.
And if they didn’t allow the storage of the explosive, how did he end up there.

[guest]

Quote: Kostadinov

90% is a classic sabotage.

Yes, of course, sabotage, but as always disguised as stupidity.

[dump22]

Information from the company's website http://www.piro-ross.ru

Piro-Ross was founded in 1994 by four defense companies:
FSUE "KHZ" (Krasnozavodsk Moscow Region)
Federal State Unitary Enterprise “FSPC “NIIPKh” (Sergiev Posad Moscow Region)
Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Signal" (Chelyabinsk)
FTsDT "Soyuz" (Dzerzhinsky Moscow Region).

[Cannon]

It has been in operation for decades and produces fireworks of unique quality. +++++ The fact that the quality is unique can be judged by the destruction and the victims. Wow, salutes with fireworks and crackers.

[Ulysses]

Pyrotechnic enterprises should not be located within city limits. Ideally, five kilometers from any residential development. I see no difficulties with the adoption of the relevant law.