During seven weeks the Higher Mining Office recorded four fatal accidents in Polish mines. Another four miners were seriously injured. According to the Higher Mining Office, the human factor is currently the cause of about 80 per cent of all accidents in Polish mining industry.
This is over 20 per cent more than a few years ago. The last accident took place in late February at Olkusz-Pomorzany mine. The mine is owned by Zakład Górniczo-Hutniczy ?Bolesław? SA. While unloading the trucks with stone in the pithead of the pit-shaft ?Dąbrówka?, a 35-year-old locksmith was pressed by the truck to the construction of the tippler. Unfortunately, he was not saved and he died soon after the accident.
A few days before at ?Mysłowice-Wesoła? mine a mining blaster got fatally injured. A 54-year-old worker of a service company found himself in a conveyor belt not suitable for transporting people. He was dragged by the belt under the construction of the scraper conveyor which was situated over the route of the belt conveyor. He had no chances to survive.
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