Analysis and assessment of economic damage from accidents at coal mines in Russia

The purpose of the article is to study the economic damage from accidents at coal mines in Russia. In the course of a retrospective analysis, it was found that the most common types of accidents at coal mines are explosions, fires, collapses. It is revealed that the main causes of such accidents are a low level of production discipline and unsatisfactory control over the organization of work by engineering and technical personnel. Based on the methodological guidelines of the Ministry of Science and Education of the Russian Federation, the author calculated the economic damage from accidents at a coal mine.

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