Kremenchuk – The top managers of public joint-stock company Kriukov car Building Works (KCBW, Kremenchuk, Poltava region) say the fires that occurred at the plant in February, March and September 2013 were not acts of sabotage.
Board Chairman Yevhen Khvorost told reporters that the cause of the fires was old electric wiring, as the workshops that caught fire require modernization.
“We don’t link the fires at the plant with sabotage. These are old shops built before the (Second World) war. The electric wiring is old and is letting us down,” he said.
Khvorost added that the plant is working on the modernization of such sections.
“The financing is allocated and we’re trying to remove everything old,” he said.
As reported, the fire in the one-storey building of the wheel sets workshop at KCBW on September 16 destroyed the roof of the plant over an area of about 800 square meters. The preliminary reason for the fire was an electrical short circuit.
On March 3, 2012, the repair and building workshop at KCBW went on fire, and on Feb. 22 there was a fire in the paint workshop. The prosecutors’ office filed two criminal cases on these incidents under Part 2 of Article 270 of the Criminal Code (violation of the law on fire safety).
The Kriukov plant, which is the CIS’s only manufacturer of both passenger carriages and freight wagons, produces freight wagons (open wagons, tankers, hopper wagons, and high-sided wagons), as well as passenger carriages, bogies for freight wagons, wheel pairs, and spare parts for subway carriages, escalators, containers, and road equipment.
