Vale was ordered to pay BRL 1 million to each victim, of the 137 families, for compensation for moral damages, in the Brumadinho disaster, in Minas Gerais

The head judge of the 5th Rod of the Regional Labor Court of Betim, in Minas Gerais, Viviane Célia Ferreira Ramos Correa, condemned the mining company Vale to pay compensation of R$ 1 million for moral damages for each worker killed in the rupture of the Córrego Dam do Feijão, in Brumadinho, which took place on January 25, 2019, being the largest work accident in Brazil in terms of loss of human life and the second largest industrial disaster of the century. See also: Looking for the first job? Mineradora Vale is hiring 900 professionals with no experience to fill vacancies in its internship program

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Indemnification process by the mining company Vale to the families and heirs of the victims of the Brumadinho disaster

The indemnity that the mining company Vale will pay covers the direct workers of the victims of the accident and will be destined to the estates and heirs. The spill of ore tailings, on January 25, 2019, caused the death of 270 people, of which 137 would be direct employees of the mining company, according to the authors of the process, which is equivalent to a total of BRL 137 million.

In the action, the Metabase Brumadinho Union alleged that Vale's compensation payments to families, until then, were intended to repair the moral damage suffered by the victims' relatives, such as parents, children, wives and siblings. In yesterday's decision, Wednesday (09/06), the conviction targets the moral damage suffered by the victim himself, for having his life shortened.

Vale's process to compensate the victims of the disaster in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais

According to Maximiliano Garcez and Luciano Pereira, union lawyers, the sentence brings justice to the dead workers. Maximiliano says that the victims were cruelly abandoned by the mining company Vale, which allocated R$37 billion even for road works in Belo Horizonte, and not a penny to compensate the terrible suffering of the deceased workers, who died in atrocious conditions and who had decades to live. abbreviated.

Garcez also explained that decisions of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) created jurisprudence for the right to compensation for moral damages to be transmitted with the death of the holder, having the “heirs of the victim active legitimacy to judge or pursue the action for compensation”.

In the process, Vale requested, on the merits, that the action be dismissed. The mining company alleged, among other points, the illegitimacy of the union as a plaintiff in representing deceased workers, in addition to questioning the appropriateness of “public or collective civil action in the face of heterogeneous individual rights”. Sought on Wednesday night, Vale did not immediately respond

Mining company wanted to make a billionaire deal

The government of Minas Gerais and Vale signed, in February this year, a billionaire agreement to repair the damage caused by the Brumadinho tragedy. After four months of negotiations and 200 hours of meetings, the term was signed with a value of more than R$ 37 billion (R$ 37.689.767.329,00 exactly).

The negotiations involved representatives of the government of Minas Gerais, the Public Ministry of Minas Gerais, the Federal Public Ministry and the Public Defender's Office, and the Court of Justice of Minas, in addition to the mining company Vale, responsible for the dam that broke at the mine. Feijão Stream, in Brumadinho, on January 25, 2019, killing 270 people.

However, representatives of those affected and relatives of the victims complained, from the beginning, that they were not heard or invited to participate in the negotiations with Vale. They protested on the date in front of the Court of Justice during the hearing.