Overview

• On July 17, Fukuoka Prefectural Police and Kurume Labor Standards Inspection Office teams began on-site forensic examination and detailed photographic documentation of the July 15 collapse site.
• The two-story, 350-square-meter steel-frame building was erected in 1969 and was being dismantled to prepare the land for sale.
• Autopsy results identified the deceased as 23-year-old Indonesian trainee Sakti Ramadani Saputra, who died of multiple trauma, and 41-year-old company employee Yoshinori Yoshitani, who died of asphyxiation.
• Of six workers on site, three were trapped under debris—two died and one survived with serious injuries—while three others escaped after hearing unusual noises; a passerby suffered a non-life-threatening head injury.
• Authorities are probing structural, procedural and safety oversights in an ongoing inquiry aimed at strengthening demolition regulations.