The 47-year-old owner of a sawmill in Weilbach (Ried district) noticed heavy smoke coming out of the sawing hall around 6.45 a.m. on Friday when she arrived. She immediately drove to a nearby fire station and pressed the fire alarm button. At the same time, employees of the sawmill arrived at the workplace. They tried to contain the fire with four hand fire extinguishers.
The Weilbach and Senftenbach fire brigades, which arrived quickly, were able to quickly extinguish the fire in the area of the trimming system, which prevented it from spreading to the entire sawing hall. When the fire site was examined by an expert from the fire prevention agency for Upper Austria together with the district fire investigator and a police officer from the Obernberg police station, it was determined that the fire had broken out as a result of bearing damage to a screw conveyor shaft. Damage in the five-digit euro range As a result, hot parts of the bearing cage fell to the ground and set fire to the sawdust deposited on the ground. A smoldering fire broke out during the night, which spread under the trimming system and damaged parts of the system. The amount of damage is in the low five-digit euro range. Nobody was hurt.
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