Consumer Law
Two Women Sue the Operator of a Louisiana Salt Mine Over a Fatal Collapse
Two women have sued the operator of a Louisiana salt mine where a roof collapse killed their husbands a year ago.
Genee Romero and Alexandra Patin said in nearly identical lawsuits that Cargill Inc. officials and supervisors ignored both the danger and at least one worker’s warning that a collapse was close, the Lafayette Daily Advertiser reported.
Rene Romero Jr., 41, and Lance Begnaud, 27, died Dec. 14, 2020, “in a failed attempt to hurriedly and unsafely preserve profitable salt mining operations at the mine,” according to the suits filed in state court in Iberia Parish.
