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Chilean copper miner Codelco, contractors fined after deadly mine collapse
Inspectors said contractors were fined about $87,000 combined, more than Codelco’s roughly $20,000 penalty, after six workers died in the collapse.
- Codelco was fined by authorities in Chile after a deadly collapse at the El Teniente mine.
- The July 31 incident, a seismic-triggered rock burst, killed six contract workers and injured others at the world’s largest underground copper mine.
- Contractor companies faced heavier penalties, with details revealed through public records obtained from Chile’s labor ministry.
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Chilean copper miner Codelco, contractors fined after deadly mine collapse
Chilean state copper miner Codelco was fined by labor authorities after last year's deadly collapse at its El Teniente mine, while three contractors whose workers were killed or injured were sanctioned more heavily, according to inspection records obtained by Reuters through public-records requests.
·United Kingdom
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Sanctions were imposed in months after the July 31 earthquake that triggered a rock explosion in El Teniente
·Bogotá, Colombia
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