700 mine workers at Tabas mine resigned in protest against unsafe working conditions and heavy fines.
On September 31, in a big disaster, at least 53 mine workers died due to methane gas explosion in Tabas mine.
This disaster broke the record in terms of the number of people killed and was named the deadliest mining accident. Only in the six months leading to Mehr of this year, 20 mining accidents have occurred in Iran with at least 60 deaths.
During the explosion of the Tabas mine, the wagons that were supposed to extract the coal, this time, took out the lifeless bodies of the workers from the dark corridors of the mine.
Although the Tabas mine was sealed after the explosion, it has been a few days since this mine was reopened without any changes.
Now, 700 workers out of a total of 2,000 workers of this mine have resigned en masse in protest of the lack of work safety.
