A member of ICEM-affiliated Metallurgical, Mining and Chemical Workers’ Union of Georgia who received serious burns but escaped death in...August 2010 coal mine explosion died inside that same mine in late November due to a shaft cave-in...[T]he Tkibuli-Mindeli Coal Mine of Geo-Coal [is] owned by the Georgian Industrial Group...A similar shaft collapse at the accident-prone mine...occurred on 6 November, killing two miners...The ICEM...charged Geo-Coal...with failure to install modern ventilation and detection equipment. Safety issues were a main reason behind a strike by the mine’s 200 workers last February...That strike ended when the company agreed to a labour contract empowering the Metallurgical, Mining, and Chemical Workers’ Union to assist with safety improvements...[A] joint labour-management safety committee [was] established for better process control of safety and labour protection systems.