As part of a tactical exercise, employees of the Vinogradovsky open-pit mine, a branch of Kuzbass Fuel Company JSC, developed skills in assisting miners during a rock collapse at a dump site in one of the mining areas.
According to the plan of the exercise, as a result of a rock collapse, a small volume of rock mass overwhelmed a bulldozer with the driver in it. As a result of the incident, the driver suffered a leg injury and was unable to leave the bulldozer cabin on his own.
The mining foreman immediately reported the incident to the mining dispatcher. The mine workers immediately began practicing emergency rescue measures and alerting emergency services. In accordance with the measures provided for in this emergency, work at the site was suspended, the power supply to the emergency site was turned off, employees were evacuated to a safe area, and work was organized to set up safety posts at the emergency site.
The mine's auxiliary mine rescue team was the first to arrive at the site of the buried bulldozer, promptly beginning to clear the rubble and free the conditionally injured person. Employees of the paramedic health center of the mine, having arrived at the site of the rubble, provided first aid to the victim and ensured his delivery to a medical facility.
“The exercises made it possible to check the correctness of the actions of the mine personnel in the event of an accident, to track the real time of arrival at the emergency site of mine rescuers and employees of the paramedic health center, and also to work out the procedure for interaction with the Kemerovo Paramilitary Mine Rescue Squad. All involved departments and employees coped well with the assigned tasks as part of the drill, and there were no errors in the actions of the personnel,” says Sergei Efimov, head of the production control and labor safety service at the Vinogradovsky open-pit mine.
In total, 5 units of equipment and 20 people from the open-pit mine and personnel of the Kemerovo VGSO were involved in the implementation.
Such activities at the open pit are carried out systematically and allow employees to maintain a high level of readiness to act in an extreme situation of an industrial accident.
