Of the 117 employees working at the branch on that day, 115 would die within a year. Including those who were exposed to radiation elsewhere, the total number of employees at the branch was 169.
[Date of construction] April 1953 [Constructor] Japan Electric Power Transmission Co., Ltd. Chugoku Branch [History] At the time, the Japan Electric Power Transmission Co., Ltd. Chugoku Branch (now Chugoku Electric Power Co., Ltd.) was located 900 meters from the hypocenter. The two-story wooden building collapsed and burned down due to the atomic bomb. Of the 117 people working at the branch on the day, 115 died within a year. Including those who were exposed to radiation elsewhere, 169 people from the branch died.
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