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NEWS: 10 Treated for Carbon Monoxide on Innocent Lilies Sequel Set




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nargun



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:13 am Reply with quote
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a cavern in a former mine [...] generators


oh ffs.
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Nilrem



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:09 am Reply with quote
That was pretty much my initial thought.

Followed by, shouldn't they have had monoxide and gas alarms at the bare minimum if they had to work in a mine, or use generators in any enclosed space*.

It's good to hear no one died or was badly affected, but it's such a silly mistake that I suspect the Japanese H&S (if they have one) will hopefully be chewing out whoever thought it a good idea.


*Every time we have flooding or a prolonged powercut in the UK we seem to get someone dying because they thought it a good idea to run a generator or petrol powered pump in the house.
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Tiggyz



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 8:53 am Reply with quote
While I'm glad everyone that was affected by this is doing well, One thing still questions me. Who's smart idea was it to run a generator underground without any carbon monoxide detectors nearby.
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Hoppy800



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:27 am Reply with quote
Former mine? WTF? You don't even do standard photoshoots inside former mines because you don't know if they could cave in due to quakes, erosion or just from decades of mining. It was dangerous even without the generators running and whoever thought about this should be fired.
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Tiggyz



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 9:42 am Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
Former mine? WTF? You don't even do standard photoshoots inside former mines because you don't know if they could cave in due to quakes, erosion or just from decades of mining. It was dangerous even without the generators running and whoever thought about this should be fired.


They should also be sued. There really lucky that no one died from the carbon monoxide poisoning
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Admiral Pizzaman



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 10:06 am Reply with quote
This place is definitly not a safe place. Geez, Who thought someone in 40s should be at least beware of this hazardous,abandoned mine,yet failed to do so? Thank goodness, they 're okay now.

Better safe than sorry.
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:45 pm Reply with quote
The mine itself isn't really the problem. I'm sure it was inspected and deemed safe for shooting beforehand. It's not like they just walked in there without permission and started shooting.

But whoever gave them the approval to film in there probably assumed they were smart enough to leave the generators outside and run lines into the mine. Clearly they underestimated how stupid people can be.

Emerje
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DavidShallcross



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:31 pm Reply with quote
At least one of the old mines in the area is a tourist site.
A TimeOut Tokyo web page http://www.timeout.jp/en/travel/feature/3052/Day-trips-and-weekend-breaks-Tochigi-Prefecture says:
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Oya Stone Museum
The deceptively small Oya Stone Museum displays a number of miners’ tools, early photos of the quarrying process, and an exhibit about Frank Lloyd Wright’s Imperial Hotel in Tokyo (demolished in 1968), for which he insisted on using Oya stone. Then things get really interesting: you descend a stairwell into a vast underground ex-quarry 60 metres (197 feet) deep and large enough to swallow the Tokyo Dome. The quarry has been used as an aircraft factory in World War II, a mushroom farm and, more recently, a concert hall. Mon-Wed, Fri-Sun, 9am-4.30pm; closed Thur (except in Aug). 600 yen. 909 Oya-machi, Utsunomiya, Tochigi .

From other web sites, it seems to be a kind of volcanic tuff, good for carving. The whole area is riddled with these mines.
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Togame



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:54 pm Reply with quote
They're making another Shiromajo Gauken?

Oh Sakamoto
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ajr



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 7:55 pm Reply with quote
At least no one died. Since they're running generators in an enclosed space and they didn't wind up with symptoms until the next day, that's probably a pretty big cave, which might explain why they didn't see the problem until they did. Ventilation is important!
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