Turkey’s Preventable Tragedy
MANISA, Turkey — On the morning of May 13, Turkey finally woke up from
its deep slumber on workplace safety — but at the cost of 301 lives. The
subterranean fire last week at the Soma coal mine in western Turkey was
the worst mining disaster in the country’s history. Hundreds of
hardworking men in the district I represent are dead. And sadly, their
deaths could have been prevented.
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