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Accidents

Accidents in Polish mines 2019-2021
	NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS
	fatal			serious			total
	2019	2020	2021	2019	2020	2021	2019	2020	2021
Hard coal mines	16	8	9	8	7	3	1894	1668	1767
Lignite mines	0	1	0	0	0	0	32	27	24
Copper ore mines	5	3	2	2	4	4	327	251	185
Other	2	4	2	1	2	2	73	83	102
TOTAL	23	16	13	11	13	9	2326	2029	2078

Number of dangerous occurrences in underground mines and related to them accidents 2018-2020
	NUMBER OF OCCURENCES			NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS
	NUMBER OF OCCURENCES			FATAL			TOTAL
	2019	2020	2021	2019	2020	2021	2019	2020	2021
Fires	18¹⁾	12²)	8	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rock falls	5	3	8	0	1	2	0	3	5
Rockbursts	6	3	3	6	0	1	64	15	9
Methane explosions and ignitions	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	3	0
Coal dust explosions	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Outbursts of gases and rocks	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Water inrushes	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	35	19	22	6	1	3	64	21	14

1) including 1 fire connected to methane explosions.

2) including 1 fire connected to methane ignition; people injured are reported under the "Methane explosions and ignitions" category.

FATAL ACCIDENT INDICES 2018-2020
	2019	2020	2021	Remarks
Fatalities per 1 M. t	0,26	0,15	0,17	hard coal mining*
Fatalities per 1 M. t	0,14	0,09	0,08	hard coal*+ lignite mining
Fatalities per 1 M. t	0,16	0,10	0,06	copper ore mining
Fatalities per 1 000 employees	0,15	0,08	0,09	hard coal mining*
Fatalities per 1 000 employees	0,13	0,09	0,08	mining in total

ACCIDENT INDICES IN TOTAL
	2019	2020	2021	Remarks
Fatalities per 1 000 employees	17,7	16,1	18,3	hard coal mining*
Fatalities per 1 000 employees	16,1	12,1	9,8	copper ore mining
Fatalities per 1 000 employee	3,7	3,0	3,3	lignite mining
Fatalities per 1 000 employees	12,7	11,3	12,4	mining in total

*) without Central Drainage Plant (CZOK)

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