Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Another worker dies at giant mine in West Papua

http://www.aawl.org.au/content/another-worker-dies-giant-mine-west-papua

One worker was killed and another one injured in a bulldozing accident at the
Freeport-McMoRan Inc giant Grasberg open pit copper mine in West Papua.
Notwithstanding the huge and prolonged strike that workers carried out in 2011
(see herehereand here) such deaths are not isolated incidents. Last month, another worker
was run over and killed by a mining truck at the company's power plant area in 
Kuala Kencana – a town located near Grasberg mine. In 2013, there was a major
accident where 28 workers were killed when a tunnel collapsed.
Advice from Australian Asia Workers Link