Exercise with 447 Helpers in Asbestos Quarry?

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Next Agitators around the discussion about "Asbest stone quarries" in Burgenland: According to Greenpeace, a disaster exercise took place in one of the affected plants. With 27 pupils from Niederösterreich. Now it is determined... Apparently against better danger knowledge the emergency case was rehearsed last October in the stone quarry Pilgrimsdorf (Burgenland)! A total of several hundred volunteers participated in it – among them fire brigade…

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447 participants – including 27 students – did disaster exercises in the Pilgersdorf quarry, a few months before closing due to asbestos pollution

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As Greenpeace now reports and criticizes, a disaster exercise took place in October 2025 in the pilgrim village quarry in Burgenland with 27 students among others. It was later closed due to asbestos. On 18 October 2025, a disaster exercise took place in the stone quarry in Pilgrimsdorf (Bezirk Oberpullendorf, Burgenland). 447 people trained there for the emergency, now reports Greenpeace Austria. At the latest since 2011 the asbestos exposure w…

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EISENSTADT/PILGERSDORF. Due to a disaster in the Pilgrimssdorf quarry (Oberpullendorf district), the environmental protection organization Greenpeace reported.