2007 Zasyadko mine disaster

2007 Zasyadko mine disaster
Location of Donetsk Oblast in Ukraine
DateNovember 18, 2007
LocationDonetsk Oblast, Ukraine
Coordinates48°04′08″N 37°48′20″E / 48.06889°N 37.80556°E / 48.06889; 37.80556
Deaths101
Eastern shaft of the Zasyadko coal mine. Local cemetery seen on the foreground is the burial place for most of the victims.
Location of Donetsk (red) and Donetsk Oblast (pink) on the map of Ukraine.

The 2007 Zasyadko mine disaster was a mining accident that happened on November 18, 2007 at the Zasyadko coal mine (Ukrainian: Шахта ім. Засядько) in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk.

By November 30, 101 miners were reported dead:[1] the worst accident in Ukraine's history. At the time of the explosion, 457 miners were in the complex.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Hospitalized miner died". Korrespondent (in Russian). November 30, 2007. Retrieved November 30, 2007.
  2. ^ Korneychuk, Dmitriy (November 18, 2007). "Methane blast at the mine of Zasyadko". Gazeta po-Kievskiy (in Russian). Archived from the original on November 19, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2007.
  3. ^ "Yushchenko goes to Donetsk with a pain in his heart". Korrespondent (in Russian). November 18, 2007. Retrieved November 19, 2007.