Sverdlovsk Region Arbitration Court began looking into the claim laid by Kazakhstan-based Kaztemirtrans against Nizhniy Tagil Iron & Steel Works (NTMK); the plaintiff insists on being paid 5.96m RUR.

The money in question is the sum of the damage caused by a broken wheel rim and a broken portion of the all-rolled disc of the left wheel set in the carriage of freight train No. 2212 that was traveling from Zharly to Razyezd 202 at Kazakhstan Temir Zholy National Company’s Shubarkudyk-Sagiz section of Aktyubinsk Railways. The accident resulted in the derailing of the said carriage and eight more carriages that were following it.

The accident occurred on May 8, 2009.

The Kazakh company refers to a technical report provided by a board of technical experts from an independent expert body; the report was drawn up by V. Lazaryan Dnepropetrovsk National Railway Transport University. The plaintiff provided a copy of a typology of the wheel set and their components’ deficiencies, so the document was included in the dossier relating to the case.

NTMK did not agree to the claim and placed a petition for conducting a new expert examination in order to estimate the findings contained in the joint inquiry acts and Dnepropetrovsk university independent expert body’s technical report. The plant asks for the examination to be conducted by Alexei Sukhov from Railway Transport Scientific Research Institute.