Minister of Defence Aleksandar Vulin, accompanied by Assistant Minister of Material Resources Nenad Miloradovic and Acting Head of the Military Medical Academy Colonel prof. Dr. Miroslav Vukosavljevic, visited workers who were injured during the fire of technological waste in the factory "Milan Blagojevic-namenska" in Lucani at the Clinic for Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy at the Military Medical Academy.

M.M. (1991) and M.I. (1962) were injured.

According to the anesthesiologist on-call, Major Dr. Nebojsa Damnjanovic, injured workers were admitted to the MMA in the morning, in a very unstable state.

- We hospitalized two workers with burns in a very unstable state. Both were intubated on the respirator. All cardiopulmonary resuscitation measures, cardiovascular system support, respiratory support, diuretic support are included. We are trying to stabilize them, but as I have already said, both of them are in a life-threatening situation, Major Damnjanovic said.

According to Minister Vulin, injured workers have the best possible medical care and "we will do our best to get their injuries off".

- What medicine can do, will be done. The Ministry of Defence, in cooperation with the factory management, of course, using all legal powers, will check what actually happened, act in accordance with legal procedures, and always continue to work in accordance with the need to increase and preserve safety and security at work, as far as possible. There is no higher priority for us, but to preserve human lives, that is, to preserve the health of all employees in the defence industry of Serbia, and when such incidents happen, then we have to be all together and we all have to react. I am of course with the families of injured workers and I wish them a fast recovery. We will continue to help if the worst comes to the worst, or if they recover, more quickly, which would be wonderful, we will be there with their families and will do our best to help both children and wives. They need to know that the Ministry of Defence is there to look after them, the Minister of Defense said.
Assistant Minister Nenad Miloradovic said that the incident occurred in front of a room for the disposal of technological waste on the rocket fuel production line and added that this line was recently automated.

- Fire extinguishers have reacted instantly and as reported, material damage is not large, and everything that happened on that line is automatically shut down. Unfortunately, two workers were in front of the line and were directly affected by the fire of that residual fuel. One of our priorities is to protect workers as much as possible because it is a very dangerous production. It is a substance that burns at temperatures over 2,000 degrees and causes such injuries. Our priority has always been to prevent, as much as possible, such incidents and, as far as possible, to prevent the consequences, Miloradovic pointed out.

The Acting Head of the Military Medical Academy said that this institution and its employees will do everything in their power, as a team, as they have always worked, to manage all these and similar conditions and make their patients best cared for.

- The condition of the patients is very difficult. We, unfortunately, have experience in treating such burns and we will do everything to save lives, and in this case, life-threatening injuries, we will do what is in our power. In our opinion, this kind of injuries, in one patient, 95 percent of the body is affected by burns, and in the other about 65 percent, are very severe conditions, but we do everything to stabilize their condition and come to the situation for further treatment to be taken by the Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Burns , said Colonel Vukosavljevic.

The Minister of Defense formed a commission that will identify the causes of this accident with the factory's authorities.