Posted on 12/14/2020 8:46:40 PM PST by texas booster
Part of my cold and flu season routine is a spoonful of Tabasco a day. While it doesn’t prevent the little sniffles, I’ve had exactly one flu day off in the last five years, so there is something to the routine.
Avery Island is a money machine
To get tere you must cross a short bridge with a $4 toll (a few years ago)
A major destination is the Tabasco factory, really a very large kitchen where the various blends and package sizes are cooked and bottled.
Associated with the factory is a large gift shop selling everything you can think of that is tabasco related. There is a food truck selling Louisiana jambalaya and et tu Fei. Fantastically delicious.
There is the cargill salt works that has been there for ages.
They punched through the salt dome and struck oil
Ihe island is beautiful and if you want to see the local flora and fauna, there is a visitors preserve that can be visited for a fee.
It is all just a very large family business
The salt mine is operated by Cargill Protein and Animal Health. Daniel Sullivan, media relations director for Cargill said, “I can confirm that this morning the rescue team recovered one of the missing miners who was fatally injured in the accident.”
Right now, crews are working to locate another miner that they have not had contact with since the accident.
Sullivan said, “Out of respect for the families, we will not be sharing further details about the employees at this time. Our sympathy is with the family who is mourning the loss of a loved one and we are offering support to them.”
Cargill is working with the Mine Safety and Health Administration in the ongoing rescue efforts.
Sullivan said, “We care about our teammates and have professional grief counselors on site at our facility who will be available to our team as needed. The safety and well-being of our colleagues is our top priority. We are grieving with the community as we face this loss together.”
While I grow cynical from listening to corporate double-speak, there is no doubt that the small community from which this salt mine draws its workforce, is feeling these deaths very personally.
Thanks for the update.
They are tight knit communities down there is South Louisiana. I have always loved it down there with my family and friends. Been through the hurricanes, floods, and oil spills. Your neighbors are always there to help you out and you would lay down your life for your neighbor.
Poor man, it doesn’t look good for finding his colleague alive, either.
Perhaps miners go straight to Heaven, having already served their time in the Nether World?
When you are near that plant, you know it.
Rescue operations at an Avery Island salt mine have ended after crews located the body of the second missing miner last night.
The roof of the salt mine, owned by Cargill Protein and Animal Health, collapsed on December 14. Sixteen miners were able to escape, but two remained stranded.
By the evening of December 15, the bodies of both miners had been located, according to Cargill spokesman Daniel Sullivan.
“Our hearts are broken for our colleagues and their families,” Sullivan said. “To respect their privacy, we will not be sharing further details about the employees at this time. We continue to offer both families support and extend our deepest condolences for their loss. We care about our teammates and have professional grief counselors on site at our facility who will be available to our team as needed. The safety and well-being of our colleagues is our top priority. We are grieving with the community as we face this loss together.”
Sullivan released a statement hours after the collapse saying that the cave in had nothing to do with recent sanctions from the Mine Health and Safety Administration at the site. He said Cargill will continue to work with investigators from the agency to determine the cause of the deadly collapse.
Unfortunately, this result is not unexpected.
Prayers for the survivors.
t much. condolence to families and friend of the 2 miners. love. (prayer)
To go deep into the earth has always been hazardous work. Prayers and sympathies for the departed and their families.
That’s so sad! Many prayers for their families!
Remember that life is short and to value that which is truly important.
Both men trapped underground after a salt mine's roof collapsed Monday morning are now tragically pronounced dead.
The Iberia Parish Coroner identified the two Wednesday as Lance Begnaud II of Broussard and Rene Romero Jr. of New Iberia. Begnaud was 27 and Romero was 41. Both men leave behind families who were desperately hoping their loved one would emerge unharmed as their 16 coworkers did.
... The two days of around-the-clock rescue efforts ended with the worst news Wednesday morning. Rene Romero Jr. was found dead hundreds of feet below ground Tuesday evening.
His coworker, Lance Begnaud Jr., was pronounced dead Monday night. Begnaud was 27 and from Broussard. He had just started working at the Cargill salt mine as a production assistant in July.
Coworkers took to his Facebook page in memoriam describing him as tough, funny, and ambitious, but more than anything else, a family man. Begnaud had just married the love of his life last year. At the time he said, “And to think I get to walk a lifetime with you by my side!”
His wife, Alexandra, is expecting to have their newborn baby next week after his funeral.
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