Treatment of a miner in a pressure chamber

The only survivor of the deadly mine accident at the Zasiadko coal pit Eugene Volodin is seen through the pressure chamber glass in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk, 729 km (452 miles) east of capital Kiev Thursday, August. 1, 2002. At least 19 coal workers were killed and one more still missing as an explosion 1,078 meters (3,557 feet) underground rocked a coal mine Wednesday evening were at least 21 people were working, the latest in a series of deadly mining accidents in Ukraine. The Zasiadko coal mine was considered one of region's most profitable and well-equipped, but 55 workers were killed by a methane gas explosion in August 2002 and 50 miners died in a May 1999 accident at the mine. Photo UNIAN