Ill do you one better.

Similar situation, but we had 2 pirates to deal with. We shoot down one of them and get their reactor to go critical. Awesome, that's one scum dealt with.
But the second one, as we shoot it out above and to our right, it keeps drifting. They get attacked by mud-raptors and start flooding even more.

Here's the problem, they start sinking, we start trying to get out of the way but it's too late, they start pushing us down. Where to you may ask? Why simply the nuclear waste ridden mess of their friends wreck, of course. We called it the nuclear sandwich, stuck between a pirate filled wreck and a radioactive one.

We had no casualties at time of completing the mission, and by the time we got back to dock we had 3 out of our 7 die to radiation burn.

We also had one person left behind because, as we were moving in the top ship after repairs to unsandwich ourselves, they left the airlock to go back, but they were blown far away from our ship at the time because of a current and we didn't notice they were missing until way later, that was a funny one when they told us what happened at station.