Twenty -four hours after the tragic accident that left five dead in the Cerredo mine, the looks are now put in the owner company, in case it could have incurred some irregularity. Some of the relatives of the victims spoke of “negligence” While the Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, said that in the middle of the “no one can die like that” and warned that “the whole weight of the law” would fall on those responsible.
Blue Solving is the company that in 2024 took the mine, which has gone through multiple private hands throughout the last decade. Formed by veterans of the sector, the young company had two complementary research permits to return to work in the mine, but did not count With the authorization to exploit it yet, according to ‘El Comercio’.
One of those permissions allowed him to extract coal at certain points to analyze his properties. It was on the third floor of the exploitation where Jorge, Rubén, Amadeo, Iván and David worked at the time of the accident. In this place, the company could only “withdraw material, metal tables, roads and mining elements until April 11,” said Belarmina Díaz Aguado, advisory of the Principality.
The idea of Blue Solving, since it is no longer possible to extract coal as fossil fuel, was to verify the status of the mine, update it and recognize where it is high quality coal with which to produce graphite to manufacture batteries, water filters or photovoltaic plates, since the Cerredo mine, in its day one of the most important in Spain, continues to store large coal reserves.
The investigation will now focus on knowing the conditions in which the miners worked and if the company met the permits. «It has to be done with the necessary rigor, with the necessary seriousness and respond to what the mining unions that are right are claimed. We all want to know what happened and especially families, ”said the president of Asturias, Adrián Barbón, in statements in TVE.
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