On March 29, 2016, at approximately 10:00 a.m., an accident occurred in the turbine hall of Unit 3 of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant. The incident was covered up under pressure from CEO Pavel Pavlyshyn. This was reported on the Facebook page of the city organization "People's Control Kuznetsovsk."
It is known that the operator of turbine shop No. 2, while performing his duties during an event and equipment inspection at the +6,0 level, leaned on a removable cover, which broke. As a result, the worker fell to the 0.00 level. Due to multiple bruises, broken ribs, and a broken collarbone, the worker was taken by ambulance to the State Emergency Medical Service No. 3 of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in Kuznetsovsk.
However, according to sources, Rivne NPP General Director Pavlyshyn, through the management of Turbine Shop No. 2, attempted to influence the injured worker to report to the emergency medical service that he sustained his injuries at home, i.e., in a domestic setting. Furthermore, the nuclear power plant's management intended to conceal the fact of the work-related injury by retroactively granting the injured lineman time off.
This would have been the case if local activists from the Kuznetsovsk People's Control hadn't learned about the situation and information appeared in local media and social networks.
As a result, the NPP administration was forced to establish a commission to investigate the accident and act in accordance with the law and the "Procedure for Investigating and Conducting Unexpected Incidents, Professional Accidents, and Industrial Accidents." It was only on March 30, 2016, at 11:00 a.m., that a report of the accident was sent to the relevant authorities.
We would like to remind you that this is not the first case of occupational injuries and accidents being concealed at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant. We previously reported that Pavlyshyn instigated the silencing of accidents at the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant.
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