A quarry worker was seriously injured.

On March 4, Mr. Le Xuan Tho - Chairman of the People's Committee of Tru Son Commune (Do Luong District), said that the police had begun investigating the case of a worker at a local quarry who was seriously injured. "The conflict arose from the quarry blasting that broke some of the man's acacia trees," said Mr. Tho.

Previously, Toan Thanh Company Limited also filed a complaint against Mr. Nguyen Dinh Nga (62 years old, hamlet 4, Tru Son commune) for vandalism and intentional injury. According to the complaint, on the morning of March 1, Mr. Nga entered the area where the company was blasting and quarrying, threatened workers with a knife, and then threw some equipment and machinery from the mountain, causing damage. In the afternoon of the same day, Mr. Nga continued to cause trouble, using a knife to slash a worker of the quarry's drilling team, injuring him. Also according to the complaint of this company, in October 2023, Mr. Nga also entered the quarry area when workers were preparing to blast, threatened them with a knife and cut off the detonator.

Speaking to reporters, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Nga admitted to using a knife to injure the quarry worker and said the cause was due to anger over broken acacia trees due to explosives used to mine rocks. “My acacia forest is located next to the quarry, they exploded and broke some trees, I have submitted a petition to the authorities but it has not been resolved. I was so angry that I did that,” Mr. Nga said, adding that the acacia plantation area was land that his family reclaimed many years ago, and then bought from the commune People's Committee.

Meanwhile, a representative of the quarry said that the area where Mr. Nga was planting acacia trees had been licensed for the company to mine stone. “It is true that the blasting process affected some acacia trees. We have also raised the issue of compensation at a high price, but Mr. Nga still refused and demanded more. When his demands were not met, he often came to cause trouble. Now all the workers of the quarry are afraid of being assaulted by him and do not dare to come to work anymore,” said the representative of the quarry.

The Tru Son commune land officer said that Mr. Nga's acacia forest area is under the management of the commune People's Committee, and was later granted a license to Toan Thanh Company Limited to exploit stone. "Mr. Nga planted acacia on that land without any documents. Although the land was granted a license to the company, because it was not possible to compensate for the assets on the land to clear the site, the land has not been handed over to the company yet," said the land officer.

The case is being further investigated by the police./.