One dead in mining accident in Georgia
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A miner died last night during underground works in Shukruti mine in the village of Chiatura - a city in the western Georgian region of Imereti.
The mining accident claimed the life of 45-year-old Zaza Abramishvili at around 3 am.
Georgian American Alloys, the company responsible for the mine, said in a statement that part of the ceiling had collapsed and killed Abramishvili.
Deputy Head of Professional Unions Tamaz Dolaberidze claimed the place where the ceiling fell down in the mine was hazardous.
Dolaberidze believes the administration of the mine should not be sending miners to work at places without appropriate safety conditions.
An investigation of the case is underway.
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.
Four miners have been killed after a rope broke and a coal lift with four men inside fell from a height of 350 metres in the Mindeli coal mine in the town of Tkibuli in the west of Georgia.
A court ruling has overturned a Ministerial decision to allow Russian-owned mining company RMG Gold to continue mining at the Sakdrisi Gold Mine in southern Georgia.
Major issues surrounding the Sakdrisi gold mine will be investigated by international experts in a bid to resolve the vast problems surrounding the mine.
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.
The President of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan has offered his deep condolences to President Giorgi Margvelashvili and the Georgian population over the tragic accident at the Mindeli coal mine in western Georgia that has claimed the lives of six and injured three.
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.
'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”.
The Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre (EMC) has released the results of their latest labor safety monitoring, which indicates that there were 71 injuries and 25 killed in industrial accidents in January-June of 2019.
Locals of the Georgian village of Shukruti in the western Georgian region of Imereti, who demand Georgian Manganese compensate them for the damages, have gathered in front of the United States Embassy in Tbilisi to ‘make their voices heard’.