Radom. Tenement house collapsed during renovation. Convicted of causing the disaster wants to change sentence

The partial collapse of a tenement house at ul. 25 Czerwca 14 in Radom occurred in February 2022. The action on site lasted over seven hours. Access to the building from ul. 25 Czerwca was impossible due to the entrance gate covered with rubble. Rescuers had to go around the building to find another access route. They managed to get in from ul. Prażmowskiego. There were residents in the inner courtyard who had left their apartments before the arrival of the rescue services. They reported that there were elderly, sick and partially mobility-impaired people in several premises. Everyone was evacuated, no one was injured.

Already on the day of the disaster it was suggested that it was probably caused by earthworks being carried out on the building.

The District Prosecutor's Office Radom – Wschód conducted an investigation into the bringing about of a generally dangerous event, which endangers the life or health of many people or property on a large scale, in the form of a building collapse. This crime is punishable by a sentence of one to 10 years in prison.

The suspect in this case was the owner of a renovation and construction company, directly supervising the renovation of the water and sewage installation on the premises at ul. 25 Czerwca 14.

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“According to the investigators, even though Stanisław G. knew that the ground was weakened due to the outflow of water, he mistakenly dug a trench below the depth of the foundations, approximately seven meters long, directly next to the gate wall of the building, without the necessary safeguards for the building structure, which caused the collapse of part of the tenement house,” said District Prosecutor Cezary Ołtarzewski.

In October last year, the District Court in Radom found the accused guilty of the act he was charged with and sentenced him to one year of imprisonment with a conditional suspension of its execution for two years and a fine of PLN 15,000. The court also ruled that the accused PLN 5,000 in damages for each of the four injured parties and ordered him to pay the costs of the proceedings. The defendant's defense attorney appealed against this ruling.

An appeal hearing date in this case has not yet been set.