Rescuers on 27 November found the body of the second miner who died during the accident at the Inhulskaya mine of SE "Eastern Mining and Processing Plant" (SkhidGZK). This was reported by the Ministry of Energy.
The deceased is Volodymyr Kosyuk, born in 1982. He is survived by his wife and an eleven-year-old daughter.
Investigation
"A commission for a special investigation, created by the State Labor Service, is clarifying the circumstances of the accident"
The ministry said the commission is working to determine the causes and circumstances of the incident. The investigation is ongoing.
Course of the accident
The accident occurred on 11 November: in the underground workings of an exhausted block there was a breach of a hydraulic backfill mixture and flooding of the horizon.
Four miners found themselves in the flooded area. Two exited on their own, two died. The body of the first deceased — electrician Vadym Zhykh, born in 1980 — was found on 17 November.
The enterprise
The Inhulskaya mine is located in the village of Neopalimivka, 8 km from Kropyvnytskyi. It was opened in February 1967; the first ore was extracted in 1971.
- The mine works the Michurinsk and Central uranium deposits at depths of 160–420 meters.
- Production capacity — about 470,000 tonnes of ore per year.
- SE "SkhidGZK" is the only enterprise in Ukraine and the largest in Europe engaged in the mining and processing of uranium ore; it includes a uranium processing complex and three mines: Inhulskaya, Smolinska and Novokostiantynivska.
Context
It should be recalled that the accident at the Inhulskaya mine on 11 November caused flooding of underground working horizons and has already led to the deaths of two workers. A state commission is to establish the technical causes of the breach and any possible safety violations.
