The accident registered in the Asturian mine of Cerredo, in the Council of Degaña, where five people have died on Monday, adds to a long list of accidents with fatalities that occurred in the Spanish mines.
The accident, one of the most serious in a mine in Spain, has occurred around 9.30 after a strong explosion.
The most recent occurred just over 2 years ago, when three geologists died due to a detachment in a gallery in Suria (Barcelona), while the most serious took place on August 31, 1995 in the San Nicolás de Mieres (Asturias) well, where 14 miners lose their lives after an explosion of Grisú gas in the San Nicolás well.
Relationship of the main accidents, with at least 3 fatalities that occurred in Spain, since 1990:
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.
31.03.2025.- Five deceased and four injured, in an explosion registered in a Cerredo mine, in the Council of Degaña, in Asturias
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