“…In addition to being among the largest in the world in terms of tailings volume, the Fundão dam in Mariana was also the most extensive in the world. The Brumadinho disaster had the second largest number of fatalities, and the highest number of workplace fatalities of the twenty-first century (Zonta & Trocante, 2016;Wanderley et al, 2016), in addition to being the largest "workplace accident" in Brazilian history (Espindola & Guimarães, 2019). These were not the first tailings dam collapses to occur in Brazil and, it seems, will likely not be the last (Zonta & Trocante, 2016;Pinheiro et al, 2019;Campolina, Gianasi, et al, 2021).…”