埼玉さいたま行田ぎょうだ作業員さぎょういん4人にんがマンホールに転落てんらく全員ぜんいん意識いしき不明ふめいの重体じゅうたい

On the morning of the 2nd in Gyoda City, Saitama Prefecture, four male workers inspecting a sewer pipe fell into a manhole. According to the fire department, all four were rescued, but they are all unconscious and in critical condition.

Around 9:30 a.m. on the 2nd, in Nagano, Gyoda City, a man who was inspecting a sewer pipe called the fire department and reported, A worker has fallen into a manhole.

When the police arrived, they found four male workers who had fallen into the manhole. According to the fire department, they were rescued by around 4 p.m. on the 2nd, but all of them are unconscious and in critical condition.

The manhole where the accident occurred is located on a city road by the river in front of a special needs school.

The area is dotted with houses amidst sprawling rice fields.

According to the police, the manhole has a diameter of 60 centimeters and is more than 10 meters deep. It is believed that after one of the workers fell into the manhole, the other three also fell in while trying to rescue him.

According to the Gyoda City Sewerage Division, what was being done at the site on the 2nd was an emergency inspection requested by the national government to local municipalities in response to a large-scale road collapse that occurred in Yashio City, Saitama Prefecture, in January of this year.

There is also information that nearly ten people were working at the time, and the police are investigating the details of the situation.

The site is located in a residential area about 4 kilometers northeast of JR Gyoda Station.

Inspection work to confirm the deterioration of sewer pipes: According to the Gyoda City Sewerage Division, the work being carried out at the site on the 2nd had been outsourced by the city.

The subject of the investigation was large sewer pipes with a diameter of 2 meters or more that were installed before 1994, and the sewer pipe that was being inspected this time was installed in 1981.