[Translation prepared by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre]

Why people are dying at Nigmatulin's YDD Corporation plant, 25 July 2024

A sudden burst of flame from a furnace at the YDD Corporation ferroalloy plant took the lives of two workers. Three days after the accident, the furnace manager, Muzafar ISMAILOV, died. The company pledged to pay 10 annual salaries, improve housing conditions, and close the loans of the deceased and his wife. Five more people were in serious condition. The regional health department does not provide exact data; when asked by a Ratel.kz correspondent, they said that the victims had 10 to 100 percent of their bodies burned...

On the evening of July 24, the health department reported that another victim had died...

On the night of July 25, edits were made to the official YDD Corporation account that we would not like to read.

"To our deep regret, three of our colleagues died in the hospital today...", the company reported...

"After intensive resuscitation measures, it was not possible to save the lives of two more injured workers of the Karaganda Ferroalloy Plant..." - confirmed Ainura Abdieva...

The Labor Inspectorate Department is investigating the accident...