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"This evening, a serious safety accident occurred at Anytime Fitness, a 24-hour gym in the Shuri area of ​​Okinawa Prefecture, where a piece of fitness equipment collapsed, resulting in serious injuries and deaths to two U.S. Marines stationed in Okinawa. The store involved has been jointly sealed off by the Okinawa Prefectural Department of Health and Welfare and the Okinawa Prefectural Fire Department, and ordered to cease operations for rectification."

Next, we will reconstruct the complete course of the accident.

The incident occurred at 17:12 PM today, during peak hours at the gym. Two active-duty U.S. soldiers stationed at Kadena Air Base were conducting strength training in the gym's large commercial power lift area. One soldier was performing a low cable row back exercise, while the other soldier was simultaneously using the power lift to perform pull-ups.

At the moment of the incident, the large commercial gantry frame, which had been in use for many years and lacked regular maintenance, suddenly broke and collapsed. The steel frame, weighing hundreds of kilograms, tilted forward and crashed heavily onto two soldiers who were training.

Eyewitnesses and gym surveillance footage showed the equipment suddenly disintegrating without warning, leaving two soldiers no time to dodge and pinning their torsos and necks to the heavy frame. Okinawa Fire Department paramedics arrived immediately to conduct extrication and rescue operations, and the two injured soldiers were rushed to Central Okinawa Hospital for treatment.

Confirmed by the hospital's diagnosis:

The first soldier suffered a direct blow to the neck from a heavy object, resulting in a complete fracture of his cervical spine. He suffered cardiac and pulmonary arrest on the spot before being taken to the hospital and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The second soldier suffered multiple comminuted fractures of the thoracic vertebrae due to the heavy impact of the machine frame, along with permanent and complete damage to the spinal cord. He completely lost sensation in his lower body and was diagnosed with lifelong paraplegia, resulting in irreversible lifelong disability. He will require lifelong rehabilitation care and wheelchair mobility.

According to the on-site investigation results from the Okinawa Prefectural Fire Department, the direct cause of the accident has been preliminarily determined: the main large gantry crane in the store had been in use for more than 7 years, and the store had long neglected the safety maintenance of the equipment. The steel frame welds were aging and cracked, the fixing bolts were corroded and loose, and the metal structure was severely fatigued. This is a typical major safety liability accident caused by years of disrepair and lack of daily maintenance, and was not caused by user operation errors.

An official from the Okinawa Prefectural Health and Hygiene Department stated that 24-hour unattended gyms inherently have blind spots in equipment inspection. This incident exposed a widespread problem among many chain self-service gyms in Okinawa Prefecture: prioritizing revenue over equipment safety maintenance. Starting immediately, all Anytime Fitness gyms and similar unattended self-service gyms in the prefecture will undergo a two-week comprehensive safety inspection of their large strength training equipment.

Currently, the police have launched an investigation into the gym operator's liability for negligence in causing injury, and the person in charge of the gym's operating company has been questioned by the police. Meanwhile, the legal department of the US base has also liaised with the Okinawa police to follow up on subsequent compensation and post-injury matters related to this incident.

In recent years, gyms around U.S. military bases in Okinawa Prefecture have seen a very high proportion of U.S. military personnel, leading to occasional gym safety incidents. This serious equipment collapse accident, which resulted in one death and one serious injury, is the most serious gym safety accident in Okinawa Prefecture in the past three years.

Our television station will continue to follow up on the store's penalty results, the progress of the equipment inspection, and the follow-up treatment of the injured, bringing you the latest follow-up reports.

That concludes the content of this news article.

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The worktable is divided into two ends. One end is piled with risen dough and small pieces of horse meat, while the other end is a ceramic pot containing sweet potato starch and the thick soup left over from stewing meat. Today, we will not only make crispy baked buns, but also steam a pot of authentic starch stew.

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