Soma mine disaster - Oxygen sensors in mine were not active, no proper masks: miners. HT: Todays Zaman.
The İmbat company worker who took part in the rescue operation maintained, based on what he saw in the mine during rescue efforts, that the masks the miners used did not seem to be checked regularly.
“Colleagues who took part in the rescue operation saw when they reached the bodies that many of the victims' gas masks had not been activated. The cords -- which should be checked every 15 days -- that make the masks function automatically turned out to have been torn off,” the miner said.
According to a report in the Habertürk daily on Sunday, the issue about gas masks is not just a failure of proper inspection, but that the miners were not provided with proper gas masks that offer protection from carbon monoxide poisoning in the first place.
“For the past couple of weeks, hot coal was being taken out of the mine, but nobody showed any interest in this. Production was not stopped. We felt our feet get warmer [while working in the mine] due to the coal. We felt that two weeks before the incident.
Those who were responsible for safety came and saw it for themselves. ‘Leave here,' the safety people said, but the production manager said, ‘Production will continue,” said Mustafa Gülenç, who has been working in the Soma mine for two and a half years, when meeting with the Minister, the Doğan News Agency reported on Saturday.
Reportedly, other mine workers who also attended the chat with the minister confirmed the worker's comment, and the minister told his aides to note down what Gülenç had said.
Hot coal is an indication that there was already a fire burning in some part of the mine that apparently, the mining officials failed to take proper note of.Read the full story here.
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