Citation

Chowaniec C, Kobek M, Chowaniec M, Skowronek R, Nowicka J. Arch. Med. Sadowej Kryminol. 2011; 61(4): 319-330.

Vernacular Title

Ocena mechanizmu i przyczyny śmierci ratowników górniczych podczas wypadku zbiorowego w Kopalni Wegla Kamiennego "Niwka-Modrzejów" w Sosnowcu w 1998 roku.

Affiliation

Katedra i Zakład Medycyny Sadowej i Toksykologii Sadowo-Lekarskiej Slaskiego Uniwersytetu Medycznego w Katowicach.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Polish Forensic Medicine Society)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

22715675

Abstract

On February 24, 1998, in the Niwka-Modrzej6w Coal Mine in Sosnowiec, a group accident occurred and, as a result, six miners died and four others were injured. Mine rescuers, proceeding to work in out of action mining excavation, separated by an isolative dam, were using oxygen escape breathing apparatuses AU-9 type and oxygen breathing apparatuses for work WU-70 type. A comprehensive evaluation of the accident circumstances, medical papers, autopsy, histopatological and chemico-toxicological reports, technical surveys of the Central Station of Mine Rescue and the Military Institution of Chemistry and Radiometry (WIChiR), taking into consideration the microclimatic conditions in the sidewalk and testimonies of the survivors allowed for determining the cause of death in the victims. The authors emphasized special difficulties in compiling the comprehensive opinion in the reviewed case and the significant evidential value of the technical survey prepared by WIChiR that showed numerous and serious abnormalities in the performance of oxygen breathing apparatuses, which in a short time led in their users to acute respiratory insufficiency due to anoxia with its further consequences.

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