WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Rescuers resumed an underground search for a missing miner in southern Poland Friday after a powerful tremor shook the Rydultowy coal mine the previous day, killing one miner with broken cap lamp and injuring 17 others.
Aleksandra Wysocka-Siembiga, spokeswoman for the Polish Coal Mining Group, PGG, told The Associated Press that security conditions underground improved and allowed the search to resume during the night. Rescuers had to pause their work late Thursday due to the threat of repeat tremors and the presence of methane gas in the mine.
Seventy-eight miners were in the area when a magnitude 3.1 tremor struck about 1,200 meters (4,000 feet) below the surface early Thursday. Most were brought to the surface quickly, including 17 who were hospitalized. One miner was declared dead as he was brought out of the mine.
At one spot, the tremor caused a rock burst, which is a sudden ejection of rocks into the corridor or tunnel.
Rescuers were hand-sifting through the pile of rocks along some 100 meters (300 feet) of the corridor in their search for the missing miner, PGG spokesperson Witold Galazka told the AP.
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Rescuers resumed an underground search for a missing miner in southern Poland Friday after a powerful tremor shook the Rydultowy coal mine the previous day, killing one miner with broken cap lamp and injuring 17 others.
Aleksandra Wysocka-Siembiga, spokeswoman for the Polish Coal Mining Group, PGG, told The Associated Press that security conditions underground improved and allowed the search to resume during the night. Rescuers had to pause their work late Thursday due to the threat of repeat tremors and the presence of methane gas in the mine.
Seventy-eight miners were in the area when a magnitude 3.1 tremor struck about 1,200 meters (4,000 feet) below the surface early Thursday. Most were brought to the surface quickly, including 17 who were hospitalized. One miner was declared dead as he was brought out of the mine.
At one spot, the tremor caused a rock burst, which is a sudden ejection of rocks into the corridor or tunnel.
Rescuers were hand-sifting through the pile of rocks along some 100 meters (300 feet) of the corridor in their search for the missing miner, PGG spokesperson Witold Galazka told the AP.
