Monday, 31 March, 2025, 14:22
After the tragedy that occurred in the Cerredo mine was injured, where five people and four operators died, Asturians remember the worst events in the community. One of them, Nicholasa, in 1995.
Three and a quarter in the morning to four hundred meters under the ground. Astuias sleeps but in Nicholasa, like every night, miners dig the depths of the Earth to reach operations, hidden between rocks and deadly trap that, that night, cannot detect gray gray. There are dozens of miners working early in the morning: thirteen, specifically, HIOPHY from Hunosa in the eighth plant, where everything happens; Four others, from the subcontractor, in the fifth. Among them, who dream of their immediate retirement; Others, with holidays, are about to reach; Everyone, anxiously, looks at the future of murder mining since he sent Brussels to stop.
Suddenly, terror explodes.
Mieres modification day
The dead were in the fourteenth of the last century who imposed a day from the Nicholasa accident, the well in which the “attacker” who had paralyzed, and now, was saddened by thousands of attendees at the last goodbye from miners in the midst of a dark silence. There was more than 150 funeral crowns, and once, not a single sign. The Dead, Ten of Hunosa-The other three managed to survive, and the four Satra that was contracted with the subcontractor, which originated in Morvia-SILESIA, the mining zone with MZEY distinction, between 29 and 43 years and left many others, if not more, children and widows.
Meanwhile, another type of silence drew the event of discontent: the company claimed that it had no idea of what happened that night so that it would have happened, without any expectations, which could already be classified as the worst accident in the history of the Astorian mining.
Why is the tragedy?
What happened in that morning in Nicholasa? The colleagues of the victims were clear: Nothing could have been employed in the work of fourteen people with experience and professionals. “Nicholasa has not arrived,” he told El Commerco, one of the widows on the fifteenth anniversary of the tragedy. This is true. Later, justice decided that the cause of the accident had gone regarding the weak ventilation that, if the poetic expression is like a little tragedy, “excited” to Grisú until it exploded.
Since then, things have changed. The Nicholasa accident was distinguished before and after the mining safety. There were changes in ventilation systems and new rules were issued for excessive obstacles; Interesting studies in the classes have intensified to discover Grisú earlier, and it has proven that the machines will always advance via the charcoal vein, and it was never from the rock. Nicholasa has not been accidental free of time since then, but fortunately, the tragedies of the tragedies of such that separated the lives of fourteen men on August night, now, twenty years ago.
Names
The paragraph that arises when speaking, one by one, from miners who lost their lives in the Nicholasa accident, but necessary. They were Eugenio Martin, Merry, 41 years old and son. Elías otero, his compatriot, 42. Anatolio Lorenzo, Lyons, with 43 years old. The three were about to retire when Griso decided to break their lives. The youngest of whom was Manuel Angel “Johnson” Fernandez, 29, single, Beriza; Michal Klenot, with the same age, born in Carvin, to the north of the Czech Republic, is already playing with Poland. Miroslav Divoký also, 31 years old; Jesús Trapiella, 30, or José Ignacio Del Campo, with the son of thirty rivers behind him. Luis Antonio “Zabi” is thick. Eduardo Augusto, born in Portugal. Both 35 years old, two children each. Francisco Javier Gonzalez, two others, born in Valencia de Don Juan and 40 years old; Juan Manuel Alvarez, Tonon from 34 and his son; Milan Royck, 33; Vlastimil HaVLíK, with 43.
There is a song, “Ostravo”, by a famous singer – composed of a joint and natural group, also, from the same area that saw birth – but does not die – Czech miners fell in Nicholasa. “Ostravo Srdce Rudé / Zpečtěný Osdee, says: Some verses that can also sing, for these cross lines, designated for the Astorian mining basin. Answer and dynamite, but also the frame that cries today, after about five years, for all the lives separated by the treacherous mine.
