{"id":19818,"date":"2020-01-25T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&#038;p=19818"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:24:11","slug":"data-the-numbers-from-the-tragedy-in-brumadinho","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/data-the-numbers-from-the-tragedy-in-brumadinho\/","title":"Data: The numbers from the tragedy in Brumadinho","content":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_1\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One year after the collapse of the tailings dam at the C\u00f3rrego do Feij\u00e3o mine, discover what the situation is like in Brumadinho, the stage of Brazil\u2019s worst ever environmental disaster.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collapse of the B1 dam owned by Vale at its C\u00f3rrego do Feij\u00e3o mine in Brumadinho, in the state of Minas Gerais, left at least 270 people dead and another 11 missing. A total of 12 million cubic meters of tailings was spilled. At the time the dam burst, 427 mining company employees were working at the site.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">July<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Vale and the Office of the Public Prosecutor for Labor Issues signed an agreement to compensate the families of employees killed in Brumadinho. It established that spouses or partners, children, mothers and fathers of Vale employees killed in the tragedy would receive R$700,000 each, of which R$500,000 is reparation for moral damages and R$200,000 is a workplace accident insurance payout. Brothers of deceased employees would receive R$150,000 in moral damages and dependent family members would be paid a lifetime monthly income until the age of 75. The agreement was approved in the labor court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">September<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Judge Rodrigo Chaves of the 2nd Civil, Criminal and Sentence Enforcement Court of the Judicial District of Brumadinho, sentenced Vale to pay R$11.8 million to the families of two brothers and a pregnant woman killed in the tragedy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two months later<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the same judge sentenced the company to pay compensation for moral damages in the amount of R$8.1 million to five members of the same family who lost three close relatives as a result of the dam collapse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19820 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/11-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/11-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/11-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/11-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/11-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/11-1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/11-1800x1800.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19822 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12-1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12-1800x1800.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19823 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/13-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/13-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/13-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/13-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/13-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/13-1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/13-1800x1800.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19824 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/14-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"556\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/14-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/14-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/14-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/14-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/14-1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/conectas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/14-1800x1800.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 556px) 100vw, 556px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, according to information from Vale:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 106,000 people receive monthly emergency aid<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compensation for individuals and families: 723 agreements, with 2,300 recipients. This compensation is part of the Commitment Agreement signed between Vale and the Minas Gerais State Public Defender\u2019s Office<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Labor compensation: 516 agreements and 1,539 recipients<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"tts__custom-position_bottom_fixed\" ><\/div>","excerpt":"<p>Conectas has selected some data on Brazil\u2019s worst social and environmental tragedy<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":19797,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[12605,1294,8332,8333],"tema":[12279],"class_list":["post-19818","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brumadinho-en","tag-data","tag-numbers","tag-victims","tema-socioenvironmental-rights"],"acf":{"author":false,"subtitle-pt":"Conectas has selected some data on Brazil\u2019s worst social and environmental 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