Mining Company Urged To Use Profits to Make Mining Safer

According to a report published by the Cleveland Cliffs Mining Company, their profits for second quarter have increased by 13%. Their high sales volume in both North America as well as Asia-Pacific is concrete evidence that the company is making its presence felt globally and establishing its reputation.

However, along with soaring profits and high sales, there has also been an increase in the mining related illnesses and deaths that have been contributed to asbestos exposure and mesothelioma. Taconite, the mineral mined and processed in the Cleveland Cliffs has been attribute as the main cause of mesothelioma cancer and other related illnesses as it is said to be contaminated with asbestos, a deadly carcinogen.

Keeping this in mind along with high profits the Cleveland Cliffs is making, Tom Anzelc- State Rep. Dist. 3A Balsam Township has urged the mining company to invest money in new and effective technologies and equipment to lessen the workers’ exposure to asbestos and taconite dust in all phases of taconite processing.

According to Tom Anzelc, it is the moral and ethical responsibility of the company to protect the lives of people working and to ensure their safety and health. The company can afford to install latest machinery and take protective measures to safeguard people against the deadly carcinogen asbestos.

Tom makes this appeal to the mining company not only on the behalf of the state of Minnesota but on the behalf of all those people too who are suffering from mesothelioma cancer all over the world. He appeals to all those companies that are using asbestos and put their workers’ lives at risk.