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An accident at the Szczygłowice mine. Another miner is dead

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A second minerly treated at the Burn Treatment Center died in Siemianowice Śląskie after Wednesday's methane inflammation in the Knurów-Szczygłowice mine.

This is one of a dozen or so victims in a Wednesday accident. He was taken to Siemianowice burn shortly after the incident. He died on Saturday after 16.

– It was one of the most injured patients, from the beginning he was in the intensive care unit. He had a burned 80 percent of the body surface, including 60 percent of the third degree, as well as the respiratory tract – said the spokesman of the facility Wojciech Smętek.

There is still eight miners with body and respiratory tract burns in the hospital in Siemianowice. Two people are treated in the hospital in Krakow.

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The press office of Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa reported on Friday that five people injured in an accident had already left hospitals in Rybnik, Knurów and Gliwice.

The first of the miners, who went to Siemianowice, died on Thursday. He had burns above 40 percent of the body surface, including very advanced burn, face and head. He has worked in traffic for 17 years.

An accident at the Szczygłowice mineTvn24

An accident at the Szczygłowice mine

Methane inflammation in the wall of the 17th deck 405/1 below 850 m was on Wednesday in the morning in the mine belonging to the Jastrzębska Spółka Węglowa company. 44 miners were evacuated from the endangered region.

The investigation into the event was initiated by the District Prosecutor's Office in Gliwice. The causes and circumstances of the incident will also be investigated by the District Mining Office in Rybnik, under the supervision of the Mining Office.

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