A warehouse has collapsed in Shropshire and a search is under way for a missing person.
Police and fire crews are searching the wreckage of the 60m x 20m (197ft x 65ft) building in Hatton Road, just outside Hinstock.
One person has been treated for shock.
The warehouse belongs to haulage company, Edwards Transport, which specialises in food distribution. Police and 13 fire vehicles are currently at the site.
West Midlands Ambulance Service earlier tweeted one person had been treated for the effects of shock and staff remained at the scene.
Local resident John Davis said: "It’s collapsed. Whether there’s anybody trapped in there or anyone injured, I don’t know. The police have obviously closed off the access road down there and the emergency services have been coming and going.
“There’s a lot of sirens and activity down there, I’m not quite sure of the status at the moment, let’s hope nobody’s injured.”
A search and rescue dog unit from Merseyside has arrived at the site to assist with the search, BBC Radio Shropshire reporter Nick Southall said.
Fire service says warehouse collapse started with racking Posted at 12:59
The fire service say the collapse at the warehouse in Hinstock started with racking inside the structure - the building itself is still standing, although the walls are bowing.
Communications Officer Malcolm Stevenson told us the racking inside, which reaches virtually to the ceiling, has almost all collapsed and there is “a great deal of it”.
They have a drone helping them with their search for a missing person.
I’ve never worked in a warehouse but that racking scares the hell out me .
He’s ok…bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sh … e-36224871 but I bet he won’t be having cheese on toast for a while.
Warehouse racking containing cheese has collapsed.
A spokesman said that rescuers must tread CAERPHILLY, but it’s a GRATE miracle that nobody has been killed.
And it’s goodnight from me, and it’s goodnight from him.
Goodnight.
When I worked a CERT in Warrington we had narrow aisle,s 15 m high and one of the guys hit a pallet that had been put away the wrong way on the ground. It came down but only 8 bays each side but 60 pallets of Gin & Whiskey came down . it took the guys from the Fork Lift company 5 days to dig it out God what a mess
I have seen warehouses where the racking is integral to the structure - ie. holding the roof up. I think they tend to be the fully automated ones though.
bald bloke:
I wonder if he was the cause !! A bit like the well known Russian vodka factory racking collapse.
Yes, I imagine they will be studying the CCTV to see how it happened, and the most frequent cause of racking collapse is that a fork-lift truck has collided with it. But still, the fact that the bloke survived unharmed is the most important thing.
