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Prosecutor's Office On Emergency Situation At Belaruskali: The Gas Was Over Limits, By 6-7% Instead Of 1%

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Prosecutor's Office On Emergency Situation At Belaruskali: The Gas Was Over Limits, By 6-7% Instead Of 1%

The development of the mine was conducted in an unconventional way.

In the Belaruskali mine, where two workers were killed under the rubble, "the gas was over limits by 6-7," prosecutor of the Minsk region Aleh Laurukhin told tut.by.

- The criminal case has been initiated, no one knows how it will end. As far as I understand, they tried to lift the ore experimentally, the development was conducted in an unconventional way. At the preliminary stage, it can be said that one of the workers had to control the gas limit. Instead of 1% there was an excess of 6-7%. Now there is no one to ask how the measurements were carried out. It's too early to say whose fault it was," - Aleh Laurukhin, the prosecutor of the Minsk region, explained during today's press-conference.

On March 9, 2018 sudden release of salt and gas occurred at the underground mining site #10 of the mine of the 3rd mining administration, during the shift from 11.50 to 18.50, when the complex PKS-8 # 4 was conducting a cut into the technological cross slit 22b of the western column of the horizon-620 m. The emission intensity was about 600 cubic meters of rock mass. The tunnelling machine and the self-propelled wagon were completely covered with discarded rock. Operator of the mine excavation machines Maksim Ivanou and stope miner Dzmitry Valkou died under the rubble.

- They were under the ore that was thrown out of the roof, and were next to the equipment. That is, sadly, death occurred instantly, in a fraction of a second, when the roof collapsed, - explained the general director of the enterprise Ivan Halavaty.

On the day of the tragedy, about 150 people worked in the mine, and 14 people in the direction of the accident.

On Belaruskali they say that the cause of the incident were special geological structures - troughs, in the nuclei of which under huge pressure gases, including methane, are contained. The third potassium horizon, where the miners died, is considered the most dangerous.

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