More than twelve years after the tragic events that ended his life Six miners at the Emilio del Valle wellin the municipality of La Pola de Jordon (León), on the fateful 28 October 2013, two and … After half an hour of hearing a trial that put sixteen people in the dock – including businessmen, engineers, technicians and security guards – for sentencing, the ruling handed down by the Lyon Regional Court on Thursday reveals the reasons for acquitting all the defendants as the alleged perpetrators of six reckless murders and eight others of serious injury.
And in The ruling is long, approximately 300 pages. The judge asserts, among other arguments, that safety regulations were “no” violated and that the fatal escape from the firelight was “unforeseeable.” “With regard to the causes of this accident, and limiting it to the place where it occurred, it has not been proven that the company, or in particular, any of the accused in their jobs, did not comply with the applicable standards regarding occupational health and safety,” the proven facts stated.
The accident, which caught the miners by surprise, occurred around 1:24 p.m. It happened today in the underground exploitation workshop located on the seventh floor of the eastern year of the mine owned by Hullera Vasco Leonesa in the area of Santa Lucía de Jorda, near Lompira. This occurred when there was a “sudden and massive emission” of methane gas that exceeded five percent of the ignition lamp and “reduced” the oxygen levels to one percent “which immediately caused the death of the six workers who were then working in the shop as well as the injury of other workers who came to the aid of the first.”
The reason refers to the sentence Announced by the Supreme Court of Justice of Castile and Leonit was “the sudden and prolonged release of methane gas that caused the deaths of the six miners due to” the immediate absence of oxygen, as it was displaced by methane gas. The invasion “surprised” the six workers who were in the workshop “without being able to use the self-rescuer they were carrying.”
According to the court ruling, the “most probable cause” of the accident was “Production of dynamic gas phenomenon With the expulsion of gas, and perhaps also coal. In support of the acquittal, he adds that on subsequent visits to the site “it was possible to verify that there were no signs of overpressure indicating the release of sufficient quantities of coal to displace methane gas such as that produced, but on the contrary, it was found that the coal in the mailbox was loose, the anchorage mesh intact, without breaks or deformations, and the reinforcement without displacement suggesting pressures in the mailbox and the extrusion part open” as intact as it was before the accident.
Some of the events that claimed the lives of José Antonio Blanco, Juan Carlos Pérez, Roberto Álvarez, Orlando González, José Luis Arias and Manuel Mori, whose relatives received the acquittal in anger.
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