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Billion dollar mining company hasn’t paid fine for safety violations in 2010 deaths of two workers
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on June 21, 2012
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Barrick Gold company was assessed a $447,600 civil penalty from the Labor Department’s Mine Safety and Health Administration following the fatal injury incident in August 2010 that killed two workers. The multi-national corporation has yet to pay the penalty, but you wouldn’t know that reading the firm’s annual Responsibility Report.
Billion dollar company and a broom handle implicated in death of two workers
Posted by Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH of George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services on November 11, 2011 [Updated 11/14/11 below] Barrick Goldstrike is the largest gold producer in the world, with a stock market value of $51.0 Billion. With that kind of wealth, one has to ask why workers at the company’s Meikle mine near Elko, Nevada were compelled to use a broom handle to keep a reset button depressed, so tons…