Brazil, Vale and other stories, page-8

This section of the article is particularly disturbing. There was no slow down to account for the rains. Workers should not be called to touch saturated slopes. Clearly.

The death of another worker is, for Reinaldo, the proof of an announced tragedy.“There were already rumors that the place was unstable. The bank was already collapsing, and they were fixing it. They knew about risk, which demonstrates, once again, recklessness. Then we ask ourselves: how long will people need to die and families mourn the pain of the loss of their relatives? ”, He asks.

Union says it warned Vale

According to Eduardo Armond, director of the Union of Workers in the Heavy Construction Industries of Minas Gerais, since last year, meetings have been requested from Vale.The purpose of these meetings would be to discuss the health and safety situation of workers in all their areas of activity.

“In particular, we want to comply with NR 22. Until today, we have not been able to obtain a return from the mining company for the composition of work situation commissions.We warned that, with the rains, the tendency was for another tragedy to occur. Our desire was to prevent it, to urgently request that the pace of work decrease and be monitored by the union, but Vale has not returned to us yet, ”he says.

This is the section that was obscured by the picture:

According to Tatiana Telles and Koeler de Matos, head of the Division of Legal Medicine of the Interior of the Civil Police of Minas Gerais, the victim's body was admitted to the Betim Legal Medical Post, in the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, as unknown.“When they started the necropsy work, they found a badge and inquiries were made with the health sector of the company Vale, in order to contact the family to attend the IML to recognize the body, which occurred on Saturday morning ( 19)

In other words- there could easily have been a cover up. No one might have known, but for the finding of the badge.