Two explosions in one week – at the same Ikea factory

On Sunday evening, the rescue service was alerted to Ikea’s facility in Hultsfred for the second time in a short time. For Vimmerby Tidning Confirm the company that an explosion has occurred in a silo where materials are stored.

The production at the furniture giant’s chipboard factory has now been paused and will not resume until the investigation is completed.

What caused The explosion is still unclear. However, in the previous incident, it was a self -ignition in a silo, according to Ikea.

« The dry wood chips and high dust content make it lightly ignites, » the company writes to Vimmerby Tidning.

Whether the same thing happened on Sunday remains to be seen. Andreas Enberg at the Rescue Service in Hultsfred does not rule out that this is the case. That a so -called dust explosion would have happened twice in a short time he sees as a coincidence.

– There are pure occasions in the process that it can happen twice in a week. It has been quiet for a good while and it happens as it happens sometimes, he tells DN.

Sunday’s fire was extinguished at 04 o’clock on Monday morning. No one was injured.

– The extinguishing work has gone well, but it took time because it is a complicated environment. There is a lot of pipe systems and many silos and carriers, says Enberg.

To DN, Ikea writes that the damage to the silo did not get serious. The furniture giant will now further sharpen fire safety.

« In the future, we will install even more equipment and continue to improve our routines. The risk of accidents as these can be minimized, but never completely excluded, » the company writes to Vimmerby Tidning.