Two dead in mining accident

Georgian national flags are flying at half-mast today at all government buildings across the country. The government of Georgia declared April 6 as a mourning day after an accident in a mine in west Georgia claiming six lives and injuring three.

The government of Georgia has declared April 6 as a mourning day after an accident in a mine in west Georgia claiming six lives and injuring three.One of the three mine workers injured in today’s accident has told Georgian Economy Minister Dimitri Kumsishvili that he has never witnessed anything of the sort before - he said that the reason behind the accident early this morning was a coal mine bump.

A miner has died during underground works as a mine shaft at Mindeli coal mine in the town of Tkibuli in the west of Georgia last night.

Monitoring will be conducted in two directions: whether or not the mines work safely with no technical errors, and whether or not the workers’ rights are protected.

The Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili posthumously awarded 27-year-old Georgian miner Sandro Butskhrikidze, who used to spend all his income on charity.

Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze has announced the closure of Mindeli coal mine where four died and six injured as a result of a methane explosion earlier this morning. The mine will be closed until the investigation is over. The employees of the mine will be given their monthly salary during the time the mine will be closed.

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has declared July 16 a day of national mourning as four miners died and six others received severe injuries as a result of a methane explosion earlier this morning in Mindeli Mine of Tkbileuli region of western Georgia.

The Georgian Industrial Group (GIG), the largest industrial holding in Georgia owning Saknakhshiri coal mining company, is ready to gift the company to the state in the wake of today’s fatal incident in the Tkibuli Mindeli Mine, which claimed the lives of four miners and left six others with severe injuries.

Seven individuals who have been detained as a result of the tragedy in the Tkibuli Mindeli mine on April 5 this year have been officially charged, announces Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The German DMT Group will study the labour conditions in Georgian mines located in Tkibuli, western Georgia in the wake of a deadly blast earlier this year claiming the lives of four miners and leaving another six injured.

A technical study inspecting the safety norms of mines in Georgia has been launched, the results of which will be announced in December 2018, says the Economy Minister Giorgi Kobulia.

A violation of safety standards has been named as a possible reason behind the death of two workers in central Tbilisi late yesterday by the employees of the Georgian Health Ministry Work Inspection Department.

'The safety of workers in Georgia’s mines is at serious risk,’ reads the beginning of the first paragraph of the Human Rights Watch research ‘No Year without Deaths’: A Decade of Deregulation Puts Georgian Miners at Risk.’ The 60-page research that has been published today, says that the risk is caused by ‘insufficient government regulation and resulting mining practices that prioritize production quotas and put workers’ safety in jeopardy.’

Georgian Manganese Company has released a preliminary conclusion for the tragic incident that occurred at Darkveti mine in the western Georgian region of Chiatura yesterday, saying that the fatality “was not caused due to technical malfunction, a land collapse or any other accident at the scene”.

84 individuals have died at the workplace in one and a half years, between 2018 and June 2019, the Georgian Interior Ministry told IPN news agency.270 individuals have received injuries due to incidents at the workplace in the same period.In total, 59 died and 199 received injuries at the workplace in 2018, while 25 died and 71 received injuries between January and June of 2019.