Mine accident: treatment of miners

Lviv, 2017. A story about the treatment of miners who were injured in the explosion at the Stepova mine.

In the video: a hospital, injured miners in a ward, doctors, a journalist in the corridor, a volunteer of the crisis psychological service, relatives of the injured in the corridor.

Interviews: Serhiy Butrey and Vasyl Sluka, injured miners; Taras Dumansky, a combustiologist at the Center for Thermal Trauma and Plastic Surgery at Hospital No. 8; Olga Uralova, a volunteer with the Crisis Psychological Service.

For reference: The explosion at the Stepova mine in the village of Hlukhiv, Lviv region, is one of the largest coal mining accidents in western Ukraine. The explosion occurred on March 2, 2017, at 12:46 a.m. at the 550-meter horizon, in the 119th conveyor drift. At the time, 172 miners were working at the mine, including 34 miners in the accident area.

The methane explosion killed 8 miners and hospitalized 23.