More than a hundred miners evacuated from a burning mine in Kuzbass | News from Germany about Russia

In Kuzbass, a fire broke out at the A.D. Ruban mine in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky, the evacuation of miners is underway. “At the time of the incident, there were 128 miners in the mine,” the press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday, December 19. According to the ministry, they all came to the surface, but there were no casualties.

At the same time, “nominally, the shift is 140 people,” a representative of the mine administration told Interfax.

Mine works suspended

All work in the mine has been suspended in accordance with the protocol, Interfax reports, citing the management of the mine. According to these data, the ventilation of the mine is operating normally, the gas situation is within normal limits. “The company operates the” Grange “system, which allows you to see the location of each miner under the ground and receive information about his health online. Dispatchers control the exit of people to the surface,” said a company representative.

The press service of the company “SUEK-Kuzbass” in an interview with TASS reported with reference to preliminary data that the fire happened as a result of heating a coal seam. This information was confirmed by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. “A signal was received to trigger the sensors, four departments of mine rescuers went to the scene,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kemerovo Region reported.

The prosecutor’s office is checking

The Prosecutor’s Office of the Kemerovo Region initiated an inquiry into the incident. The Kemerovo interdistrict prosecutor’s office for overseeing the implementation of laws in the coal mining industry has been instructed to study the implementation of legislation on labor protection and industrial safety, the press service of the department reported.

Mine them. Ruban (formerly Krasnoyarskaya) in Leninsk-Kuznetsky is part of the Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK), the largest coal company in the Russian Federation.

Fire on “Listvyazhnaya”

The incident at this mine is already the second similar incident in Kuzbass in a month. At the end of November, a fire broke out at the Listvyazhnaya coal mine in the Belovsky urban district of the Kemerovo region. As a result, 51 people died. According to the EMERCOM of Russia, at the time of the fire, there were 285 miners underground. A case was initiated under a criminal article on violation of industrial safety requirements, which, through negligence, resulted in the death of two or more persons. In the course of inspections in Kuzbass after the explosion at Listvyazhnaya, almost 450 violations were revealed.

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