Executive killed in accident

Ural Railway Machine-Building Plant’s Board of Directors decided to appoint the CEO and First Deputy GD of Pnevmostroymachina Dmitriy Yakshin the company’s General Director on May 15, 2009. Incidentally, the enterprise’s former GD Anatoly Sabelnikov only came into office in July 2008, succeeding Alexander Saltaev, who was appointed in May 2007. This means that the plant’s BOD has elected the new General Director for the third time over the last two years.

A twenty-four-year-old worker was killed due to an accident at UC RUSAL’s Novo-Kalyinskaya mine. The Ministry of Emergencies reports a block of rock mass came off the mine surface, causing the misfortune. A response team from the Ministry of Emergencies’ Sverdlovsk Region division arrived at the scene of the accident to look into the matter. The mine keeps on operating as usual, with an ad hoc committee investigating the accident. It has preliminarily been reported that the accident was caused by non-compliance with the safety regulations during drilling operations.

An accident occurred at Kremny plant in Shelekhov, Sverdlovsk Region, leaving one man killed and two people badly burned and in hospital, ITAR TASS reports. The Ministry of Emergencies and Rostechnadzor’s experts are now examining the scene of the accident. ‘The investigative team is now looking into the circumstances of the tragedy,’ says the head of the regional investigative committee’s chief aide Vladimir Salovarov. ZAO Kremny actually belongs to United Company RUSAL.

A worker was killed at UC RUSAL’s Bogoslovsky smelter on the night of November 25. The twenty-six-year-old alumina department employee was found dead, Vecherny Krasnoturyinsk reports. ‘The worker was killed under unclear circumstances at the furnace-charge section of the smelter’s alumina department. An ad hoc committee was set up by the enterprise to look into the causes of the accident. The committee comprises some representatives of Rostechnadzor (the state technological, nuclear, and environmental safety agency),’ UC RUSAL reports. This is actually the second time a lethal accident has

A professional accident took place at Uralelectrokhimpribor industrial complex in Lesnoy on December 26. As the agency’s representative has been told by a spokesperson for Technological and Atomic Surveillance Administration of the Sverdlovsk Regional Branch of Rostekhnadzor, state technical inspection, two people were hurt while operating hoisting gear, one of whom was killed with the other one badly injured. The causes of the accident are to be investigated by a specially set up committee.