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Drummond Company, Inc. is a privately owned company based in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, involved in the mining and processing of coal and coal products as well as oil and real estate. ==History== The company was founded in Jasper, Alabama in 1935 by Heman Edward Drummond, an Alabama coal miner.〔(State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame: DRUMMOND COMPANY INC. )〕〔(America's Largest Private Companies: #162 Drummond ), ''Forbes''〕〔Ronnie Blair, ('The Drummonds: Close-Knit, Self-Made Men' ), Lakeland Ledger, May 12, 1985〕 Drummond started mining on land he inherited from his family; he used mules to drag coal out of the mines.〔 When Drummond died in 1956, the company remained family-owned.〔 In 1970, the company signed a contract to sell coal to Japanese steel companies.〔(Forbes: Garry Drummond )〕 In 1973, Garry N. Drummond, one of the founder's seven children, was appointed as Chairman.〔 He still serves in this capacity.〔 Another son, Elbert Allen Drummond, a.k.a. Larry Drummond, served as Vice Chairman until his death in 2012.〔(E.A. "LARRY" DRUMMOND ), ''The Birmingham News'', August 1, 2012〕 In 2003, the company was sued by Colombian widows and orphans of three labor union leaders who were murdered by paramilitaries near Drummond mines.〔Pui-Wing Tam, Marc Lifsher, (Colombian Killings Land U.S. Company In American Court: Mining Concern Faces Suit Over Right-Wing Attacks; New Life for a 1789 Act ), ''The Wall Street Journal'', October 6, 2003〕 The lawsuit accused Drummond of "supporting paramilitary fighters at its facilities, thereby making Drummond liable for the deaths."〔 It was known as Estate of Rodriquez v. Drummond Co.. By 2009, the United States Department of Justice had not found sufficient evidence and ruled in favor of the company, concluding that it had never supported any action of illegal groups.〔(Corte Federal de EE.UU falla a favor de Drummond dos demandas de sindicatos colombianos )〕 In February 2013, journalist Alejandro Arias reported with photographic evidence dumping of hundreds of tons of coal into the Caribbean Sea by the company a month earlier.〔(El periodista que puso en jaque a la Drummond, Semana (Colombia) ) 〕 Based on this evidence the Colombian Government temporarily suspended some operations of the company in Santa Marta where the incident occurred.〔 Drummond was also fined US$3.6 million.〔Dan Molinski, (Colombia Fines Drummond for Dumping Coal ), ''The Wall Street Journal'', December 19, 2013〕 As of December 2013, the company employed a workforce of 6,600, with annual sales of US$3 billion.〔 It was inducted into the Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame.〔 In 2015, the Drummond Company sued attorneys Terrence P. Collingsworth and William R. Scherer, the advocacy group International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates), and Dutch businessman Albert van Bilderbeek, one of the owners of Llanos Oil, accusing them of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by alleging that Drummond had worked alongside Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia to murder labor union leaders within proximity of their Colombian coal mines, which Drummond denies.〔Kent Faulk, (Drummond sues those claiming coal company involved in Colombian deaths ), ''The Birmingham News'', April 8, 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drummond Company」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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