MEXICO: TRAGEDY IN COAL MINE Sabinas, Coahuila. URGENT ACTION BY THE MINERS
Kaos. Mexico. La Jornada / Cencos, 04/05/2011
The incident occurred on May 3 at 07:00 hours (local time) in a coal mine Binsa company-owned, SA de CV. Sabinas, Coahuila.
Once again neglect, corruption and abuses by employers protected by Federal and State Government have led workplace tragedy.
On the morning of May 3 exploded a "little well" qualified as a coal mine in the town of Sabinas, Coahuila, which has claimed so far, officially, the lives of three workers still missing 11 miners rescued or their bodies handed to their families, plus a child under 15 years the body has been maimed by the explosion.
This tragedy brings to mind another mining disaster, the Pasta de Conchos, also in the state of Coahuila. Again makes the "finger in the wound" on the inhumane conditions in which we work in coal mines in Mexico, ie there are no minimum safety conditions to prevent fatalities and much less with social security, so that disaster as Sabinas or Pasta de Conchos miners and their families are fully unprotected, plus incurred in serious crimes to have children working in mines.
to this kind of accidents, the relevant authorities only manage to blame each other or to bemoan the facts through their accounts "Twitter" such as Secretary of Labor, Javier Lozano Alarcon, who is one of the main causes of the deaths of miners due to his negligence, however, nothing has been done in an accurate way to inform families of the trapped miners.
is the responsibility of the Secretary of Labor to continuously monitor the working conditions in the mining industry and punish companies that engage in misconduct, however small they are, in order to avoid tragedies like the Pasta de Conchos and Sabinas.
What is living in coal mining in Mexico is a real bondage situation where there is the least respected the human dignity of workers, however, these are seen as beasts of burden both businessmen and politicians from all three levels of government.
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