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Desperate rescue of a muddy woman, helicopters carrying corpses and desperate families in search of missing families.
Images after the breakup of three Vale dams in Brumadinho (MG) on Friday are recordings of the largest work accident in Brazilian history, which could become the second most deadly industrial accident of the 21st century. all the time. the world, according to experts and rankings compiled by BBC News Brazil.
By the end of the Monday afternoon, 65 people had been killed and 279 missing, according to rescue teams. After 72 hours of the accident, the chances of meeting people living in the mud are minimal.
Valley employees, including outsourced employees, will only be counted as victims of an accident at work. Of the 65 deaths found, there are also residents, but most of the unidentified people are employees of the mining company.
According to the Professor of Labor Law of the University of Guarulhos (UNG), Gleibe Pretti, the most serious accident recorded so far in Brazil was the collapse of 39, a shed in Belo Horizonte – 69 dead in 1971.
A The second largest tragedy of this kind took place at Paulínia (interior SP), in Shell-Basf. During many years of operation (started in 1977), Shell's pesticides contaminated the ground and killed 62 employees. More than 1,000 employees were also affected. Today, these pesticides are banned in Brazil.
The third was the tragedy of Mariana (MG) in 2015, which also included Vale. The dam's rupture in the area devastated the area, contaminated the rivers and left 19 dead.
Brumadinho dam failure is also expected to occupy an important place in international history. In the world, the biggest industrial accident in the first 18 years of this century was the collapse of a factory building in Bangladesh, killing 1,127 people.
However, in many of the largest industrial accidents in history, the number of victims is uncertain, as not all bodies are found and the disclosure of data is not very transparent.
"In Brazil and in the world, If we talk about Serra Pelada, for example, the garimpeiros descended from big rudimentary stairs, when he crossed a step up, the worker fell on the others, many died and were buried there of the Three Powers, in Brasilia, is a workers' cemetery because of the number of people who died there, not to mention the Transamazonian woman, who has died so far.work accident in the history of Brazil, according to Experts interviewed by BBC News Brazil, occurred on February 4, 1971, when the roof of an exhibition pavilion designed by Oscar Niemeyer According to experts, the accident occurred because the governor of the Minas Gerais, Israel Pinheiro, wanted to inaugurate the work by the end of his term.The official ignored warnings that the cement had not yet reached maturity and ordered that the montan Support ts are removed from the structure.
A report from the International Labor Organization (ILO) shows that 321,000 people worldwide die each year from an accident at work.
"This has serious repercussions on the public accounts and, in the last five years, the INSS has spent 26 billion rubles in compensation as compensation that could be invested in other areas", said Professor UNG
What can be done to reduce work accidents?
For the expert, this situation will only change if three factors are reinforced and respected
"If there is no strict supervision or imprisonment, companies will continue to think that there is no point in investing in security because they will never be punished. " I work in five universities and three courses and I have never seen one
In case of death in an accident at work, speculators of police work, that children and spouses must receive a pension . Children must be eligible for benefits up to age 25 if they go to college until that age. If the victim does not have children, his parents can receive the value.
There is also the allowance with projection of the useful life, calculated from the age and the amount that could still produce until the natural end of his life. ] What is an accident at work?
According to the Labor Act of 1991, an act of accident is considered to be an act causing harm to persons who have a connection with employment. They are divided into three types
This is the typical accident, as happened in Brumadinho, when the employee is injured or dies while working. There are also occupational diseases caused by work-related activities such as tendinitis, spinal cord injuries and stress.
Already, the accident is of course the one that occurs when moving between home and work. To respond to an administrative, fiscal and administrative procedure and to be fined by the prosecution, Vale has to answer criminally for bodily injury and even murder in the Brumadinho case
Professor of Labor Law at the Faculty of Law. University Law (19659003) "The company must make several repairs, from the displacement of the population to bury to the moral damage caused by the psychological shock caused by death," he said.
He states that understanding the standards of development of industrial facilities for the mining industry o can eliminate the argument about the fault of the accident.
"Assuming that the construction of an administrative building and refectory towards the dam contravenes the technical standards envisioned, this may result in individual criminal responsibility." Guilt would be confirmed because it would indicate negligence and blame the architect, but also Do something knowing that it can create a risk is a malice and the same seriousness that you run into intoxicated , "said the USP professor
Batista also explains that in some cases the fault of the company is proven in the accident.
Accidents at Work [19659014] BBC News Brazil has established a ranking of the world's largest accidents in the last hundred years, on the basis of a study published in 2012 by the International Review of Chemical Engineering, a scientific journal specializing in chemical engineering, and a ranking by the Australasian Mine Safety Journal – Australian publication on mining safety
Industrial accidents are large-scale disasters caused by ac
Brazil already has one of the deadliest accidents in history: the fire caused by the escape of a Petrobras pipeline in Cubatão (São Paulo) in 1984, at least 508 people died.
See list below:
1 – Bhopal, India, 1984
A gas leak at the Union Carbide agrochemical company caused about 20,000 deaths.
2 – Benxi, China, 1942
About 1,500 workers died when mine officials shut the road to contain a fire.
3 – Savar, Bangladesh, 2013
The collapse of a building housing factories and a shopping center caused the death of 1,127 people.
4 – Jesse, Nigeria, 1998
The explosion of a pipeline set off a fire that was destroyed only five days later and caused about a thousand deaths.
6 – San Juan Ixhuatepec, Mexico, 1984
A series of explosions in natural gas reservoirs caused a series of explosions in the Laobaidong coal mine.
5 – Shanxi, China, 1960
650 dead
7 – Oppau, Germany, 1952
The explosion of a plant of the chemical company Basf caused 561 deaths .
8 – Cubatão, Brazil, 1984
A leak in a Petrobras pipeline caused a fire in the Vila Socó favela. A total of 93 bodies were found, but the total number of deaths is estimated at 508, based on the number of students who stopped attending school in the area and the fact that whole families have died without anybody left to report the disappearance of parents.
9 – Gauley Bridge, United States of America, 1931
At least 476 workers died while intoxicated while they were digging a tunnel during construction. a hydroelectric plant.
10 – Kyushu, Japan, 1963
An explosion in an underground coal mine caused the death of 458 people.
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