Mechel announces accident at its Chelyabinsk Metallurgical Plant

On March, 11 at 9.30 a.m. local time (7.30 a.m. Moscow time) in the coke shop #2 of Mechel-Coke OOO planned steam-cleaning operations for a gas pipe line of recycling coke gas were implemented. At 10.20 a.m. in the tunnel of the coke oven battery #8 machine coke gas exhausted and flashed. The gas pipe line was destroyed and coke gas burning followed. Barrier and wall structures of the tunnel are also damaged. The accident caused death of one tunnel-servicing woman of the coke shop #2 and another tunnel-servicing woman was injured and brought to hospital.

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