Landslide in Colonnata, two miners under rocks. Unless a third worker – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published April 14, 2016 at 19:46.
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he collapsed the ridge of a quarry of Colonnata Apuan Alps, near Massa Carrara . Under rocks were two miners. The incident is the result of a landslide of about 2,000 tons of marble, as was shown by the first hills of the rescuers, intervened on the ridge of the quarry, located in the basin of Gioia (run by Antonioli Brothers).

The search operations of the two missing workers will go on unabated, overnight. Firefighters in the evening worked on the commissioning of the ridge safety to prevent further collapses. It is a wall of 25 meters in front to a height of tens of meters. In operations they were committed 50 units from all the commands of Tuscany and with different specializations: by experts who work on ropes, to those experienced in the search for the missing under the rubble of earthquakes, and there are also dogs.

Also the mobile columns were equipped with lighting towers and a small tent city was set up to give teams a chance to rest. A third worker, who had been hanging in space, was carried to safety through the work of the rescuers. Another quarryman in shock has been taken ill and transported to the emergency room by ambulance of 118.

“This tragedy is a warning to all, on the need to intensify even more the ‘ commitment to the prevention of accidents and the monitoring of compliance with safety regulations, especially in high-risk sectors such as mining. The work has to support people’s lives, not destroy it. ” This was stated in a note it was the Labour Minister, Giuliano Poletti, who expressed “sincere condolences and closeness to.

There are nine dead, two missing in addition to the today, in the last decade to the quarries of Carrara: the figures were released recently by the ASL of Massa Carrara. Were 1,258 accidents since 2005 in the field of mining. The latest tragedy November 24, 2015 when he lost his life cavatore Nicola Mazzucchelli, 46, killed by a “bead”, a sphere of steel rocketed away from the chain diamond wire during the cutting of a block; August 29 the same year in the quarries of Colonnata to Steeples had died Maggiani Brunello, 46, fell from a bank.

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