Maria Saiu, aged 36, Anna Pinna, aged 24, Laura Lussana, aged 20 and Anna Rosa Murgia aged just 15. These are the names of the four sorters who were victims of the so-called "Buggerru tragedy", which occurred exactly 101 years ago , precisely on March 18, 1913.
Filctem CGIL South Western Sardinia remembered her with a post on Facebook entitled “Dying at work”.
The union also reconstructs what happened on that cursed day: «Genna Arenas mine, Buggerru, in the south-west of Sardinia. It was seven in the morning on March 18, 1913, and the fog arriving from the sea stopped under the calamine mountain of the Genna Arenas construction site. While the personnel assigned to sorting the ore were busy with their work, the hopper containing the raw ore in the silo could not support the heavy load. A grate gave way, while a team made up of eight women, three boys and a corporal headed towards the washery, killing the four sorters. The injured - the post concludes - were three: Mariangela Zoccheddu, aged 33, Assunta Algisi, aged 33 and Luigi Cadeddu, aged just 14. The corporal, however, was saved."
(Unioneonline/lf)
