Vedanta stripped of international safety awards

  • 30/08/2010

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)

Leading mining group Vedanta Resources has been stripped of international safety awards amid claims that it won the prize without declaring that a chimney collapse at one of its sites had killed at least 40 workers last year, according to a media report. Awards to Vedanta have been withdrawn by the British Safety Council (BSC) in response to findings thrown up by a broader analysis of deaths of workers at all FTSE 100 mining groups last September, The Observer reported. The Observer analysis found that 154 work-related deaths have been disclosed by London