Overview

• Demolition experts used 15 kilograms of explosives to cut the excavator’s supporting cables and beams in a precisely timed sequence.
• The 170-meter-long, 4,500-ton machine had logged over 30 years in the Nastup-Tusimice brown coal mine before serving as a visitor attraction for more than a decade.
• Following the blast on June 6, teams have been slicing the fallen superstructure into transportable sections for removal.
• Severoceske doly, majority-owned by the partially state-owned energy group CEZ, is phasing out brown coal extraction at Nastup-Tusimice by 2029.
• A counterpart KU800 excavator still operates in the mine and can be visited by groups with prior arrangement.