After the explosion, company employees realized that there was a missing colleague, whose lifeless body was later located.
A 56-year-old worker was killed on Friday in the explosion of an agricultural waste tank at the treatment plant of the Agralco company, known as the Estella alcohol factory, as reported by the government of Navarre.
SOS Navarra received a report of the incident at 10:49 a.m. and mobilized firefighters from the Estella Park, a medicalized ambulance, another conventional ambulance, members of the Estella Municipal Police and citizen security patrols from the Estella Park to the scene of the incident. Police Station and Road Safety Police Station of the Pamplona Provincial Police.
The incident occurred when, for reasons investigated by the provincial police, a stockpile of agricultural residues exploded at the old Estella alcohol factory, located on Ordoiz Road in the city.
Following the explosion, which did not cause a fire or leaks, the lifeless body of the worker was located who, according to initial investigations, was carrying out maintenance work at the factory at the time the incident occurred.
The upper part of the tank, with a capacity of about 20,000 cubic meters and which stored grape waste for later processing, was thrown by the explosion to a distance of more than 50 meters, towards the river, falling on a path . that is part of the route of the Camino de Santiago, so access from Villatuerta is cut off.
The man’s body will be transferred to the Navarro Institute of Legal Medicine, where an autopsy will be performed. Members of the Estella Judicial Brigade are investigating the causes of the incident.
Source: EITB
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