Reasons for investigating the organizational dynamics of the Vale tailings dam disaster in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais State, Brazil

摘要

The collapse of the iron ore tailings dam operated by the Vale mining company on the Córrego do Feij?o stream in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, was a large-scale work accident, the largest in Brazil's history 1. The dam failure occurred just over three years after the disaster with the Fund?o tailings dam operated by the Samarco company in Mariana, Minas Gerais State, which until Bru madinho was considered "one of the country's worst socioenvironmental disasters" 2 (p. 6).The Brumadinho disaster caused more than 300 fatalities (counting the victims already identified and those still disappeared) and immeasurable impacts on the area's historical and cultural heritage, the environment, and the local economy 1.