5 workers die refurbishing Okayama copper refinery

OKAYAMA, Japan - Photo shows a copper refinery in Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, of a Mining & Smelting Co. affiliate, where five workers died July 25 after they were buried under bricks while refurbishing a converter. Mitsui Mining & Smelting said the accident occurred when the cylindrical steel-covered converter, one of three at the site, collapsed.

• Product Code
• ILEA000013868

• Registered date
• 2002/7/25 00:00:00

• Credit
• Kyodo / Kyodo News Images

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• 1786 × 1083 pixel

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• 72 dpi

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• 568.38(KB)*

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