In an unprecedented tragedy, two female workers and one male worker were killed in Čazma this summer after a silo explosion occurred in the area of the wood processing factory.
It is about the Di Čazma factory, which is part of the Italian Florian group. The county state attorney’s office in Bjelovar has now launched an investigation against a 70-year-old Italian, a 56-year-old Croatian woman and a 34-year-old Croatian.
DORH now suspects that there have been serious failures in occupational health and safety over a period of seven years. As stated in the press release, it is suspected that the first defendant, as a member of the board of the Di Čazma company, the second defendant as the production director and the third defendant as an occupational safety expert, from 2018 to June 12, 2025, in the production hall and silo of the trading company, organized work and the execution of work procedures without applying the occupational safety rules concerning the prevention of fire and explosion and the technical monitoring of facilities in areas endangered by explosive atmospheres.
– It is suspected that as a result of such omissions on June 12, 2025, at around 2:30 p.m., an explosion of an explosive mixture of air and wood dust occurred in the area of the silo, which caused a danger to the lives and health of the employees of that trading company who were performing work tasks, whereby three Croatian citizens (1966, 1966 and 1960) died as a result of the fire and explosion, while the victim was a Nepali citizen. (2001) suffered physical injuries – according to the DORH.
As Jutarnji list already wrote, the tragic explosion last summer was not the only such accident in the vicinity of the Di Čazma factory. It was then learned from the firemen that the fire in one of the silos had occurred two years earlier, and among the workers they could be heard warning about the dangers.
Let us remind you that the force of the explosion was so great that Sevdaha Jurčić (59) died at the scene, while two colleagues, 65 years old Dragutin Ferenčak and 59 years old Blanka Kajfeslost the battle for life during the night in Zagreb hospitals where they were transported by helicopter. The only survivor from the immediate vicinity of the explosion was a 24-year-old worker from Nepal, who fortunately escaped with minor injuries.
