Saturday, July 16, 2016

The prosecutor’s office began checking “Bashneft” after a fire at the refinery in Ufa – RBC

The company’s office of PJSC« Bashneft »in Moscow

  Photo: Sergey Savostianov / TASS

The prosecutor’s office began checking “Bashneft” after a fire at the refinery in Ufa, in which eight people died. The prosecutor of Bashkortostan took its course under his personal control

The prosecutor’s office of Bashkortostan organized check “Bashneft”, after at the refinery (refinery), owned by the company, there was a fire, claimed the lives of eight people. This was reported on the website of the supervisory authority.

Check regards compliance with legislation on industrial safety of hazardous production facilities, labor and environmental protection, as well as fire safety requirements. Progress in the inspection and the results are in control of the Prosecutor of the Republic.

The fire occurred at the refinery “Ufaneftekhim” in the village of Ordzhonikidze district Novoaleksandrovka Ufa. It killed eight workers and ten injured, two of them were hospitalized in serious condition.

According to investigators, on Saturday morning in the hydrocracking unit “was the ignition of the gas mixture with depressurization product pipeline, oil spills, and the appearance of fire” . Area fire was 300 square meters. m. The Investigative Committee opened on this fact a criminal case under part 3 of article 217 of the Criminal Code (violation of safety rules on explosive objects).

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