A gray bag is the main hypothesis that is considered as a cause of the work accident that this Monday has caused death to five workers inside the Cerredo mine, in the Council of Degaña, in the Southwestern Asturian area. Four other people have been injured with diverse consideration and have been admitted to hospital centers in Asturias y León.
The five fatal victims resided in the province of León and had ages between 32 and 54 years.
The Principality government has decreed two days of official mourning for the mining accident, one of the most serious registered in Spain. This year the 30th anniversary of the worst sinister recorded in Asturian mining is fulfilled, when 14 miners died from an explosion of Grisú in the San Nicolás de Mieres well.
The investigation
The 112 Asturias was aware of the accident at the Cerredo mine past nine this morning through a call where it was communicated that an explosion had been heard.
The event took place at the third level of this underground coal mine, several meters deep, where the victims were.
Immediately they moved to the area to carry out the rescue work the troops of the Hunosa Mining Brigade, the Firefighters of Asturias and the Civil Guard, in addition to the health services that transferred the injured to different health centers of Asturias and León.
The Emergency Plan
As soon as they have knowledge of the accident, the Mobility Minister of the Principality, Local Cooperation and Emergency Management, Alejandro Jesús Calvo, declared the activation of the Territorial Plan of the Principality of Asturias (Platerpa) in the emergency phase and situation 0.
The official mourning
Shortly after, the president of the Principality, Adrián Barbon, has announced the two -day official statement for the five fatalities and has moved to the scene of the accident.
The condolences
Likewise, the Government Delegate, Adriana Lastra, has also moved to Cerredo to know the first -hand situation through rescue teams and follow the evolution of the injured.
The president of the Asturian Executive has expressed his “most condolences” for the victims that this “terrible accident” has left, which in addition to the five deceased has left four other people injured with diverse consideration.
The accident took place after nine in the morning when the operators were doing work with an exploitation permit related to a possible use of mineral for graphite manufacturing
The accident took place after nine in the morning when the operators were doing work with an exploitation permit related to a possible use of mineral for graphite manufacturing, as confirmed by the spokesman for the Asturian government, Guillermo Peláez.
The injured
According to the data provided by the Urgent Medical Care Service (SAMU), one of the injured presented a blow to the head and has been transferred to the hospital in Cangas del Narcea, in Asturias.
Another of the workers has entered with various burns in a hospital in Ponferrada, in the Autonomous Community of Castilla y León.
The third injured has been transferred in the Basic Life Support Ambulance to the Carmen and Severo Ochoa Hospital de Cangas del Narcea.
The wounded fourth has been located around noon twelve and was transferred by helicopter to the Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA), in Oviedo, as confirmed by the Government Delegation in Asturias.
One of the most serious accidents in Spain
The accident recorded today in Degaña is one of the most serious in Spain in recent years. Just 30 years ago, Asturias lived one of the greatest mining tragedies when 14 miners died in the Nicolasa de Mieres well, after an explosion of Grisú.
The last incident in Spain took place just over two years ago, when three geologists died due to detachment in a gallery in Suria (Barcelona).
Below we include a relationship of the main accidents registered in mining farms where at least three fatalities were produced in Spain, most in the Principality.
Mining accidents with fatalities
11-12-1990.- Three miners die as a result of carbon monoxide inhalation, inside a Villanueva de Arriba mine (Palencia).
09-09-1991.- Three Asturian miners die from suffocation in the Soton well of the state company Hulleras del Norte, SA (Hunosa), located in the Nalón basin (Asturias), when a coal collapse occurs.
10-12-1992.- Four miners died when they were trapped in the Santa Barbara well of the Hunosa public company, in Turón (Asturias).
12-7-1995.- Two picadores and a vigilante die when they are buried by a collapse of land and coal in the San Vicente well, located in the Caudal Basin (Asturias), of the state-owned state company Hullera Minas de Figaredo.
31-8-1995.- Fourteen miners lose their lives after an explosion of Grisú gas in the San Nicolás well, belonging to Hunosa, in the mining basin of the Asturian town of Mieres.
10-14-1995.- Four workers die and four others are injured, two of them seriously, when there is a collapse of the retaining wall between the sixth and seventh floor of the Candín de Hunosa well, in Langreo (Asturias).
14-19998.- Three miners are dead and another wounded, in an work accident that occurred in the Montsacro well in Hunosa, located in the municipality of Morcín, in the Flow Basin (Oviedo).
28.10.2013.- Six people lose their lives due to an poisoning caused by a methane gas escape, in an accident that occurred in the Emilio del Llombera Valley of Gordón (León) Mine.
09.03.2023.- Three geologists of 28, 29 and 31 years of age die due to a detachment in a gallery of a potassa mine that the company Icl Iberia explodes in Suria (Barcelona), which left them trapped about 900 meters deep.
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