9.6.2008
Explosion on tenant enterprise “Charles Marx Mine” of the state coal enterprise “Ordzhonikidzeuhol”: at 6:30 a.m.

On June 8, 2008, at 5:00 a.m. there happened an explosion on the mine named after Charles Marx. As a result of explosion there was torn off cage in an elevating mine shaft, the lifting building and pit head of air mine shaft № 2 are destroyed. A presumable place of explosion is horizon 1000м of air mine shaft № 2. The reason of explosion is under process of settlement.

 

At the moment of the accident 37 persons were in mine. 5 persons, suffered on a surface of mine, are hospitalized in medical establishments.

At 3:50 in the mornings, 09.06.08, from 750 m. horizon 2 miners have been lifted on a surface with the help of skip mine shaft: Ivan Ivanovych Koval - explosive materials servicer and Mykola Mykolayovych Vitenko - the master-explosives expert. The injured are in a satisfactory condition and are directed to hospital № 2 in Yenakievo city.

Now salvage operations on installation of mobile lifting device for descent of rescuers on an emergency mine shaft № 2 up to horizon 1000м are conducted.

The governmental commission led by the first vice-prime-minister- А.V. Turchynov works on the mine.