Marcinelle, Pagliaro Inca Cgil : "70 years of memory in order to prevent it from happening again today"
07 August 2026 a in Rome, 7 Aug. - On August 8, 1956 a fire in the Marcinelle pit killed 262 miners
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07 August 2026 a in Rome, 7 Aug. (Adnkronos/Labitalia) - On August 8, 1956 a fire in the Marcinelle pit killed 262 miners. This is said, in a more crude way, by injuries: almost 598 thousand complaints in 2025, 1,083 death complaints at work, more than 98 thousand occupational diseases with an increase of 11.3 percent, and more than 60 percent of accidents concentrated in contract and subcontract companies, where the overalls become thinner and the most opaque liability chains". By browsing the dossiers of September 1956, the physical weight of those days is felt: there is the record of September 11, just over a month after the tragedy, with the testimony of President Giovanni Roveda and Bruno Widmar just returned from Belgium.
Furthermore, Marcinelle is a tragedy linked substantially to what was the agreement Man Carbone of 23 June 1946, of which this year the 80 years run, and that brought thousands of Italians to the mines of Belgium, in exchange for supplies of coal at favorable prices for post-war Italy. And the less well known aspect is that in those years, and especially in the previous decade, from 1946 to 1955, 500 Italian workers, miners, have lost their lives at work. The Italian-Belgian agreement of 23 June 1946 is eighty years old.
In addition, It was in 1956, when the Inca delegates left for Belgium to stand beside widows, wounded, survivors. "The thread that binds those cards to today -explains from Inca- has never broken, and the volume deliberately chooses not to stop in 1956.
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07 August 2026 a in Rome, 7 Aug. (Adnkronos/Labitalia) - On August 8, 1956 a fire in the Marcinelle pit killed 262 miners.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThis is said, in a more crude way, by injuries: almost 598 thousand complaints in 2025, 1,083 death complaints at work, more than 98 thousand occupational diseases with an increase of 11.3 percent, and more than 60 percent of accidents concentrated in contract and subcontract companies, where the overalls become thinner and the most opaque liability chains".
reliability low1/2 sourcesBy browsing the dossiers of September 1956, the physical weight of those days is felt: there is the record of September 11, just over a month after the tragedy, with the testimony of President Giovanni Roveda and Bruno Widmar just returned from Belgium.
reliability low1/2 sourcesMarcinelle is a tragedy linked substantially to what was the agreement Man Carbone of 23 June 1946, of which this year the 80 years run, and that brought thousands of Italians to the mines of Belgium, in exchange for supplies of coal at favorable prices for post-war Italy.
reliability low1/2 sourcesAnd the less well known aspect is that in those years, and especially in the previous decade, from 1946 to 1955, 500 Italian workers, miners, have lost their lives at work.
reliability low1/2 sourcesThe Italian-Belgian agreement of 23 June 1946 is eighty years old.
reliability low1/2 sourcesIt was in 1956, when the Inca delegates left for Belgium to stand beside widows, wounded, survivors.
reliability low1/2 sources"The thread that binds those cards to today -explains from Inca- has never broken, and the volume deliberately chooses not to stop in 1956.
reliability low1/2 sources
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