“All workers were evacuated from the accident site. According to preliminary data, five miners who received second-third degree burns were sent to Pavlograd city hospital, ”RIA Novosti reports.

Now all the circumstances of the incident are being established. Clarifies that the victims will be given all the necessary assistance.

Earlier, the Ministry of Energy and coal industry of Ukraine stated that the Ukrainian state coal mining enterprises owed miners nearly 200 million hryvnias.