The man died yesterday at Cruces Hospital, hours after being hit by a heavy object in the Txako industrial estate.
Euskaraz irakurri: Langile bat hil da Arrigorriagako industrialde batan lan istripua izan osteon
a man from 51 years passed away following an industrial accident at the boiler company Shaped facein the Txako industrial estate, in Arrigorriaga (Bizkaia).
The accident happened on Tuesday, February 21. The operator was hit in the chest by a heavy object, although technicians are working to clarify the causes.
The victim was taken to the Hospital de Cruces in Barakaldo, where he died hours later.
It’s a statement DE A explained that the deceased employee had taken with him 22 years old in the company. During the fall, the heavy object hit her abdomen.
After indicating that the company will continue to exist closed this Wednesday and Thursday, has indicated that it is the seventh work dead so far this year in Hegoalde. In addition, he remembered that this Monday serious accident in Tubos Reunidosin which two workers were injured, one of whom is still in ICU with a serious prognosis.
The union has indicated that it is working to collect more data on the accident in Arrigorriaga, but denounced that “again uncertainty and zero investment by employers in the field of prevention are the causes of fatal accidents at work”.
ELA has the “lack of will and effective means” by the Basque government to tackle “this real social scourge, namely the number of industrial accidents”.
Finally, the union has expressed its sincere condolences to the victim’s family, friends and colleagues and will join the acts that will take place in the region to denounce what happened.
For its part, the union LABORATORY deplores the death of the worker and has stated that from the analysis of the accident’s characteristics it can be concluded that the operator died as a result of “non-compliance with machine regulations by the company”.
In a statement, LAB explained that the death occurred as a result of the projection of a piece of the press that the employee manipulated, “indicating a lack of security resources.” “All risks caused by a machine must be foreseen and measures must be taken for each of them; all machines must comply with these principles, and even if they are old they must be adapted; this is the responsibility of the employer and this is indicated in the regulations”, manifested itself.
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Source: EITB

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