[Summary translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Centre]

Ural Department of Rostekhnadzor completes investigation into serious workplace accident involving oxygen-gas production worker, 19 November 2025

On 14 November 2025, the Ural Department of the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor) completed its investigation into a serious workplace accident involving a worker of the oxygen-gas production unit at EVRAZ Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant, which occurred on 13 October 2025.

The commission identified the following causes of the accident:

• unsatisfactory technical condition of buildings, structures, and the site, including those used for technological processes, storage of raw materials or products, movement of people and cargo, and emergency response and mitigation;
  
• poor organization of work, including deficiencies in establishing and ensuring the functioning of the industrial control system;
  
• inadequate monitoring of compliance with industrial safety requirements.
  

It was decided to initiate administrative proceedings under Part 3 of Article 9.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation against the persons responsible for violating legislative and other regulatory requirements that led to the accident.

Measures to eliminate the causes of the incident are under the supervision of the Department.