The incident took place at 9:30 am in the café-bar ‘La Parada’, located on Plaza Circular. According to LAB, the 55-year-old deceased was self-employed and belonged to a subcontractor, “a pattern” that, he denounced, “is repeated again and again.”
A 55-year-old worker died this Monday in Bilbao after falling from a height of three meters while cleaning the windows of a cafeteria.
As reported by the LAB union, the deceased was a autonomous and belonged to A subcontracting‘A pattern’ that, he has denounced, ‘is repeated again and again.’
The accident occurred at 9:30 am when the worker, a 55-year-old GVM, was cleaning the windows of the Café-bar ‘La Parada’ of Bilbao, located on the Plaza Circular. The worker fell from a height of three meters to the ground and lost his life instantly.
LAB has stated that with this “at least 53 workers killed in Euskal Herria since the beginning of this year”, and specified that 10 of these deaths “are due to falls from height”. After showing his solidarity and support “to the family, friends and colleagues of the deceased worker”, regretted he called it “a new drama.”
“We have demanded more than once that health regulations for self-employed workers guarantee their protection, and in this case it is the case, because the contractor must enforce preventive measures so that they can work in their center. from work,” he noted.
LAB has attacked the lack of control by governments negligence of the bosses and the lack of guarantees caused by the insecurity” which “create a perfect situation where fatal accidents like this can happen again and again.”
According to the union, at least for the past ten years 81 employees have lost their lives due to falls from a height in the Basque Community and Navarre, “the majority in the construction sector.” These types of accidents “represent more than 12.5% of occupational deaths and the leading cause of occupational deaths in the construction industry,” he said.
Finally, he called for participation in the mobilizations that will take place to denounce this new fatal industrial accident.
Source: EITB
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