According to LAB, the transporter was found dead in the cabin of his truck on Sunday. Apparently he died of a heart attack. The self-employed person was doing cleaning work when the machine he was riding fell over and crushed him. He ultimately passed away this weekend.
The LAB union learned of two new workplace deaths this weekend. These are two Basque workers, a transporter who died in Lleida and a self-employed person from Vitoria-Gasteiz.
As the Abertzale union explained in a note, a 59-year-old man from Pamplona was found dead in the cabin of his truck in Lleida (Catalonia) on Sunday. a heart attack. He worked for a Belgian company. They already died in 2024 six carriers in Euskal Herria.
“As LAB has denounced especially in recent years, the high incidence of cardiovascular problems in the transport sector is one of the causes of labor factors,” assured the union.
“The working conditions in this sector are very precarious: long working hours, stress, pressure, the low price paid for transport, difficulties in eating healthy due to working conditions, etc. All this creates the perfect cocktail to cause cardiovascular diseases , with the results we are all seeing,” he added.
To expose this new death, LAB, ESK, STEILAS, EHNE, HIRU and CGT will make one concentration this Wednesday at 11am. for the delegation of the Spanish government in Pamplona.
In addition, a 54-year-old self-employed person was carrying out cleaning work in a community last week in Vitoria-Gasteiz the machine he was riding in overturned and was crushed for the same, leaving him with serious injuries. He ultimately passed away this weekend.
“Self-employed people suffer from employment relationships based on insecurity, because they often have to accept jobs that entail danger in order not to lose work,” LAB has denounced. “The lives of self-employed people deserve even stricter control by the government, because the market abuses it to make work processes cheaper,” he criticized.
Source: EITB
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