Managers of a state-owned gas buying and selling firm in Trinidad & Tobago are going through 15 expenses linked to the 2022 deaths of 4 divers who turned trapped in a pipeline whereas repairing it.
Two high managers of Paria Fuel Trading Company, a subsidiary of Trinidad Petroleum Holdings, pleaded not responsible on Wednesday to accusations that they violated the Occupational Security and Well being Act, based on native media studies.
Additionally charged was the director of Land and Marine Contracting Providers Restricted, an organization contracted by Paria to restore the pipeline. Native newspapers reported that the director’s son died within the incident.
The fees filed embrace failure to correctly assess dangers, and failure to arrange and revise an emergency plan.
The divers died after being sucked into a big pipeline they have been repairing.
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A listening to within the case is scheduled for mid-January 2025.
Earlier this 12 months, a authorities inquiry beneficial that prosecutors file company manslaughter expenses towards the corporate, saying it made “little or no try to rescue” the divers.
A fifth diver survived and recounted the ordeal to investigators.
The deaths angered many on the twin-island nation within the japanese Caribbean, with households of the victims demanding correct compensation as they await the result of a lawsuit alleging negligence.
AP
