# Public enterprise for underground coal mining “Resavica”

A state-owned company in whose Soko mine eight miners suffocated on 1 April 2022. A mining inspector found that the part of the mine where the accident happened had been operating without approval for works for 14 months, and in May 2026 the Commercial Court in Kragujevac, at first instance, fined the company two million dinars and two acting directors 120,000 dinars each. Expert witnesses attributed the accident to force majeure, no one has been criminally prosecuted for the miners' deaths, and the pit manager at the time of the accident was promoted to director of the mine.

## Affairs

- [Deaths of eight miners at the Soko mine](https://odgovornost.rs/en/afere/rudnik-soko): Penalised at first instance because the "Soko" mine, where eight miners suffocated, operated for 14 months without approval for its works

## People

- [Marko Konatar](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/marko-konatar): director of the "Soko" mine
- [Marko Vuković](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/marko-vukovic): former acting director of the public enterprise PEU "Resavica"
- [Saša Spasić](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/sasa-spasic): acting director of JP PEU “Resavica”
- [Marko Konatar](https://odgovornost.rs/en/osobe/marko-konatar): pit manager at the "Soko" mine

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Source: Odgovornost, https://odgovornost.rs/en/organizacije/jp-peu-resavica  
As of: 4 Nov 2026  
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en)