The event occurred yesterday at around 3pm when an electrical panel fell on the head of the operator, who died on the spot. With this new death, at least 35 people have died in an industrial accident in the Basque Country. The unions have organised two protests this Thursday.
A 63-year-old worker died yesterday afternoon in Berango during construction work on a chalet. As reported by Ertzaintza, an electrical panel fell on the operator’s head and as a result he died on the spot.
Osalan, the Basque Institute for Safety and Health at Work, has taken charge of the investigation.
The Union LABORATORY deplored the event and demanded “a thorough and illuminating investigation into the causes and shortcomings of preventive measures”.
With this new death they are at least 35 dead in the event of an industrial accident in the Basque Country, apart from the deaths resulting from various occupational diseases, the Abertzale trade union has indicated in a note.
The accidents They are not the result of fatebut they come for the working conditions and production model that profit takes precedence over health. We workers pay with our health for the living and working conditions imposed on us by this model that puts productivity above health and life,” he criticized.
“Before the Dsterile criticism from the employers’ association about absenteeism Without going into the real causes, what really needs to change in this country is the public policy to control employers and actually carry out the controls, sanctions and inspections in the light of a real model change, where, as we have reiterated, health, life and prevention are the priorities,” he added.
LAB, Hiru, ESK, Steilas and EHNE-Etxalde They organized a meeting on Thursday 11:30.under the motto “Precarity kills” in the Sagrado Corazón de Jesús square (in front of ASCOBI), in Bilbao. The same day, but in the afternoon, at 19:00.another protest will be held in front of the Berango pediment, under the slogan “Murderous capitalism!”
Source: EITB
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